Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>
> Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> >
> > > (...)
> >
> > I once listened from a nutty UFO and psychic believer
> > that water from high up in the mountains was more
> > healthy than water from below, because it had less
> > Deuterium and Deuterium would accelerate aging.
> >
> > Sounds nutty, but - as I said before - might be
> > true. Mountain people _seem_ to have longer lifes
> > than groundhogs
> >
>
> Not if they fall off a cliff... :-)
>
> I would guess that their lifestyle, which by necessity
> includes more physical labor, less fast food, etc.
> contributes a lot more to their longevity than a lack
> of deuterium.
One question: What's the infant mortality rate among the mountain people in
question, as opposed to the population they're being compared to? If the
weaker people die in infancy, the average lifespan of the survivors will
likely be longer.
Julia
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