Absolutely well said, Santosh.
I was concentrating more on the cancers and the heart attacks that the other
ones you mentioned quite slipped by me. And there was rabies and septics
and more precariously, the snake bites.
I am well informed today.
And I am an eager beever for learning for I believe that one can learn even
moments before one breaths one's last.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
----- Original Message -----
From: "Santosh Helekar" <chimbel...@yahoo.com>
To: " estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil...
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, floriano <floriano.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
But Mario, one thing puzzles me. We in Goa ate nothing but
coconut copra oil for ages and if people died of choked
cardio vascular systems and high LDL we would never know.
But sure as hell they didn't die at 40-45 :-)). Then, all of
a sudden this staple became the killer and they fall off
their feet at 40-45, very much dead. Can you solve this
puzzle for me please??
There is no such puzzle. The manufactured puzzle results from ignorance
about the history of medicine and the state of public health in Goa and
the rest of the world. In the old days that Floriano remembers people used
to die before the age of 30 from typhoid, tuberculosis, cholera, small
pox, pneumonia and wound infections. They did not live long enough to die
from a heart attack or stroke. It was only the lucky ones who lived to see
40 or 45, not having caught the infections. The few who lived much longer
were in addition naturally selected by their genes.
Hundred years ago the life expectancy of a human being in India was 25
years. This was during the heyday of all kinds of faith-based nostrums -
Ayurveda, Homeopathy and home remedies of housewives and grandmothers. In
1947 when Indians were finally able to die free, they could only expect to
live for 36 years. In 1961 when Portugal was liberated from the burden of
Goa, a naturalized first-class Indian citizen in Goa was lucky if he/she
could survive beyond 42 years of age, still not long enough for Floriano
to see significant number of people dying from heart attacks.
Today, any toddler in India can hope to live on an average for 70 years,
long enough to have a good chance of being a cancer or stroke victim and
survivor.
Cheers,
Santosh
