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Old 05-22-2013, 11:31 AM
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Good for you GOMOHO, well said! I had a niece that died at 22 with ovarian cancer, beautiful girl in college and a picture of health until 6 months before she died. Another niece at 14 required a kidney transplant donated from her mom and she too was a picture of health and not overweight. Doing well today but takes rejection medicine which has and continues to cause other health problems for her. Last thing needed is someone casting blame as if they have all the answers....and in my opinion neither of these got what they deserved.
That's why I went back and changed the word from "deserve" to "qualified". I had my first childhood asthma attack at age nine and almost died from it. But my main point is not what always happens to individuals, it's what usually happens when people live less than optimally healthy lifestyles. An important point is to look at the difference between one lifestyle and another such as Okinawa versus American. The Okinawans are known to "restrict" calories by not eating processed foods and by eating until they are 80% full. And there's a world of difference between their disease rates and ours.