> >From a modern medical standpoint, children drinking > alcohol is detrimental, as alcohol is a neurotoxin; > developing brains are more vulnerable than adult > brains (and since our brains are still remodeling > quite a bit through age ~21yr, college kids > binge-drinking is harmful). But from a survival > standpoint, it was sensible to for all to drink > (watered) wine, as decent drinking water was not > often > available to our ancestors, and > cholera/typhoid/polio > etc. etc. were frequently fatal. <shrug> After > all, > how many brain cells do you need to do > near-subsistance agricultural labor? (As opposed to > more skilled labor, or reading/writing.)
Well not all our ancestors were out in the fields braking up dirt clods with clubs! Is there a certain point above which detrimental effects begin to occur in children, or is alcohol in any form bad? FREX, is the alcohol in cough syrup at a level that is detrimental, or is there too little to have any significant effect? I'm thinking on a sustained bases here (i.e. daily). Certainly pre-modern civilizations have had their luminaries, and unless some new evidence comes to light, its only natural to assume that some drank wine or alcohol as children, in some form or another (primarily thinking about Rome and Europe here, don't really know about other cultures). Damon. ===== ------------------------------------------------------------ Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." http://www.geocities.com/garrand.geo/index.html Now Building: ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
