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From: javilk@netcom.com (Javilk)
Subject: Re: THE INCREASING HUMAN LIFE SPAN
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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 08:18:39 GMT
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Marvin Minsky (minsky@media.mit.edu) wrote:
: In article <3dfpta$psm@gagme.wwa.com> boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
: >
: >   We know more about nutrition, we have more supplements and such 
: >available to us, but I often wonder how much of the advances in 
: >nutritional knowledge is taken advantage of by the average person.

: What specific nutritional knowledge do you think has been deomonstrated to
: increase maximum human life span?

     It is very likely that the simple availability of an adequate diet 
during winter and early spring substantialy reduced death due to 
malnutrition.  We have evened out the nutrition over the whole year.  A 
minor side effect of an attempt or Admiral Bird to reach one of the 
poles, I believe, resulting in the wide spread use of refrigeration.
I think either he or one of his relatives started the Bird's Eye frozen 
vegitable company. (Or similar spelling..)

    (No telling what incidentals we will discover in our quest to reach
the planets...)

    What I have seen, is that my contemporaries who have been taking 
large doses of vitamins since their teens and early twenties generaly 
appear 20% younger.
    Today, we may attribute that, in large part, to the power of
antioxidants; though in those days it was not as clear.  I have also 
found that when I have higher levels of vitamin C and the B vitamins, I 
tend to be more alert and get more done.
    If anyone is interested in some articles on Vitamin C, the premiere 
antioxidant, send me an E-mail  titled REQ, with the one liner in the body:
   Csend your-email-address
 (Substituting your email address, of course,) and my email butler will
send you about seven articles by Dr. Robert F. Cathcart, (inventor of the
Cathcart hip prosthesis,) one of the advocates of its medicinal use. (With
his permission.)

-J-


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