Cholesterol and CHD For reasons still unknown, coronary heart disease suddenly took off during the 1920s throughout the industrialised world. By the 1940s it was becoming the major cause of premature death. And nobody knew why.
Central heating and advances in medicine reduced death by pneumonia (sp).
TB used to kill alot. My grandmother didn't die directly from it, but the doc said having it her youth had weakened her so bad, she died fairly young, in her late 50s.
17 posted on 10/08/2006 9:21:34 AM PDT by djf
(There is no such thing as "moderate muslims". They are all "silent supporters!!")