Posted on 12/12/2008 1:18:15 PM PST by metmom
WASHINGTON — A rare genetic abnormality found in people in an insular Amish community protects them from heart disease, a discovery that could lead to new drugs to prevent heart ailments, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
About 5 percent of Old Order Amish people in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County have only one working copy rather than the normal two of a gene that makes a protein that slows the breakdown of triglycerides, a type of fat that circulates in the blood, the researchers wrote in the journal Science.
"People who have the mutation all have low triglycerides," said Toni Pollin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, who led the study.
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No cure like manual work and not sitting on your ass watching TV.
TV? What’s a TV?
There’s a clue.....
I read of a study that had been done about the incidence of Type II Diabetes in the Amish communities and the one comment that stuck out was that the author said that you NEVER find a fat Amish child, ever.
And they don’t “retire.” They work until they die.
GH?
ROFLTMTO,,,you are right on, and the fact they raise and can their own food WITHOUT PRESERVATIVES and CHEMICALS. Gene my rear end. It’s the lifestyle. My grandparents and great grandparents did the same thing, and honored their parents too, as the Amish do and most lived to be almost a 100 back then when diseases were not easily treated. sheesh.
ALSO, the Bible says “honor thy father and mother that thy days may be long upon the earth”....
IT DOES NOT SAY “watch your triglycerides and cholestrol and you will live long.”..
Growth Hormones.
Peter (Jay) is negotiating with the "Blood and Pi** Guy" to get drug-free blood and urine for a drug-addled actor he has just taken out of a Rehab center to star in his movie...
BAPG: "Don't worry. Your boy's gonna get the cleanest blood you can get."
Peter: "Wha-... what kind of blood is that?"
BAPG: "Amish."
Peter: "Amish? How do you get Amish blood?"
BAPG (coldly): "Traps."
It's friday, have some silly fun.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger...he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with Adventures, mysteries and comedies.
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped Talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.
Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. (I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)
Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home... Not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our longtime visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush. My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol. But the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular Basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly and pipes distinguished.
He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing.
I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... And NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you could walk into my parents' den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.
His name?.... .. .
We just call him 'TV.' "
And of that manual labor probably includes growing their own vegetables and meat and dairy.
Aren't they pretty much a self sustaining community? If so, their lifestyle has to be a HUGE factor.
Nothing better than home-cooked veggies, home grown meat or poultry, eggs and milk, butter, cheese, bread. No damn additives too. But damn hard and rewarding work.
Gotcha....
Well, my triglycerides are really low (62) and my HDL is high, but my LDL calculates high as well. So my dr wants me on statins even though ALL my other risk factors put me in the normal to negative risk factor category.
I’d rather not, really. I’ve looked into it some but still need to see if it’s worth the risk of going on statins.
thanks, bfl
What’s your Triglyceride/HDL ratio? It should be <5. I have had the VAP test ( a newer type cholesterol check that tests a bit more....and I have “Pattern B, small dense LDL - which is NOT good....but, I have great HDL and total cholesterol....I’d get a 2nd opinion before I took statins...JMHO.
Couldn’t believe Fox messed up a word in their title but then realized they were forwarding a Reuters essay:
American is: Preventive
British is: PrevenTAtive
Triglyceride/HDL = .95
Less than one....
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