Posted on 09/24/2024 3:56:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The Greek Mediterranean diet was MORE Mediterranean? (but the real secret is olive oil and wine). Italians debased their olive oil, just like the crap they ship to America.
When the average life expectancy was 30 or so, one would not expect to find much dementia.
Sirach 3:12-14 196-175 BC
12 My child, support your father in his old age, do not grieve him during his life.
13 Even if his mind should fail, show him sympathy, do not despise him in your health and strength;
14 for kindness to a father will not be forgotten but will serve as reparation for your sins.
That’s because they forgot to write about it.
What was the average life span back then? An important point that is missing in the article.
A thought that crossed my mind, perhaps in these early civilizations elders who were losing it would be put out to pasture.
Maybe the Greeks did not have this faulty gene that makes it more likely that people have type 3 diabetes.
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-is-alzheimers-type-3-diabetes/
And no covid vaxx
Simple...No SOY-derived foods.
Did they live long enough to get senile?
IMHO-
It’s our food and water supply.
We live in a world where our food smells and tastes good, is free of visual defects, and it meets all the USDA, FDA and health code requirements may it be wearing a beard mask, refrigerating eggs and pasteurizing milk.
(((BUT))), it is actually horrible quality:
—Pesticides
—Antibiotics
—Plastic containers the leach
—Herbicides
—Fungicides
—Irradiation
—Pasteurization
—Artificial colors
—Artificial aromatics
—Artificial preservatives
—Use of ammonia in meats
—Artificial flavors
—Hormones
—The feed which some of the livestock eat
—The way some animals are held
—HFCS
—GMO
—Taste intensifiers
—Heavy fertilization and depleted soil (reduces the level of certain minerals in vegetables etc)
Almost everything you buy in a grocery store is loaded with chemicals, has been altered at a chemical or even genetic level or has chemical residue on it.
Some of the food we eat, is outright fake, pretending to be something else, American sliced cheese which is mostly hydrogenated oil, why it is called a “cheese like product.” Cool-whip, which is oil...
***America is a nation of fat people who are malnourished.***
Our food and water supply merely looks and tastes good, but do not look at the ingredients and actually try to understand what you’re putting into your body. Even with the FDA kowtowing to big corporations and allowing for some level of deception on these labels, it should still scare you.
The food you’re eating is a little bit better than a food prop in a furniture store: https://displayfakefoods.com/
Lol. What a bunches made up nonsense.
People probably did not live long enough to show it. the average life span in Rome was 21 years of age. I found that on several web pages. 21 years average!
At that time, they has no tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, potatoes, corn, etc.
A “study”, or yet another subtle leftist hit piece on modern life? (underlying pollution complaint).
Question 1) How long did people live in ancient greece? A shorter life expectancy would have fewer elder folks and thus fewer dementia cases.
Question 2) Do we tend to have more, or fewer writings, from older cultures? Fewer writings means fewer chances to find something written on your subject of interest.
Exactly.
“Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, New Study Finds”
So were old people - life expectancy was around 35!
“Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece”
Well, they hadn’t (yet) re-engineered their food supply, so nothing surprising.
Average probably isn’t the best thing to look at, given high infant mortality.
Here’s an interesting study that looks at popes and artists living in the Vatican. It’s identifying the median age a cardinal becomes pope and how many years he lives after that. Much longer.
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/34/6/1435/707557
Longevity of popes and artists between the 13th and the 19th century
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