*******below. All mail scanned by NAV ----- Original Message ----- From: Christoph Reuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] was minuteman groups
| > These stats put things into perspective for our region: Pollution is the | > biggest problem, stress, lack of exercise and poor diet combine for second | > place; smoking accounts for about 25%, and death by firearms, broken down | > below, is way down the scale. | | Actually, poor diet is the biggest problem, because cancer is also largely | caused by poor diet (even where enviro toxins are a factor, poor diet | greatly increases susceptibility to and malignancy of cancer), and because | > cancer (malignant neoplasms), cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular | > disease, the top three leading causes of death, were responsible for almost | > sixty percent (59.3%) of the deaths in the province in 2002. | ******These stats could definitely be broken down further. Pollutants are going to cover toxins that result from poor nutrition and bad allopathic medicine. Deaths due to cardio and lung ailments are directly attributable to a large extent due to pollutants that are both ambient and consumed as nutrition. Smokers are addicted, yes, but what they inhale is polluting, and has spin off effects. Also ambient pollutants effect the water and soil for food, on top of the pesticides inside the food and water. ****** Health experts, both allopathic and alternative agree that cancers are caused by two basic things--carcinogenic pollutants and lack of oxygen to the cells. See: US National Cancer Institute, on line, Physician's site. | Also note that the table ignores the influence of illegal drugs on traffic | accidents and suicides. *****Canadian overall stats for 2001-2002 showed that out of 192,079 hospital admissions for mental health problems, only 3,519 were admissions due to drug dependence--and what type was not specified. That reads as just under .35% of overall admissions. Of the 3,000 deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, 40% were alcohol related. So, for example, in BC where there were 399 total deaths due to motor vehicle accidents, there will be about 240 of those deaths that may have in that number somewhere percentage-wise something between the actual death rate for drug use/abuse of psychoactive substances at 14 out of 28,686 overall deaths in BC and the .35 of hospital admissions due to unspecified drug addictions number, I venture to guess. *****Since suicides were almost the same in numbers, as for motor vehicle accidents, similar numbers for causes will emerge. | | But if one advocates good nutrition, exercise and genuine anti-drug measures, | one is called a fascist by the very person who posted the stats. Puzzling. ******Puzzling how everything gets back to your pet peeve. If anything, these stats should calm you down about dangers of drug use on a per capita basis so you can better focus on the bigger problems of pollution and poor nutrition, or tobacco and alcohol. ******I called you fascist for the sweeping prohibition plans you have, which at last count included all alcohol, junk food, drugs both illegal and allopathic--which would basically have put almost every citizen in the slammer or in detox. Not for the fact that you support better nutrition or exercise. ******Any reply that you may have, if uncivil, will be ignored. I think we both over-stepped the edict of relevance to the future of work on the last round. ******Natalia****** | | Chris | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword | "igve". | | | _______________________________________________ | Futurework mailing list | [email protected] | http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework | _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
