Abstract
Results...Comparing atherosclerosis prevalence among with those with no cardiovascular risk factor diagnoses (11.1% [95% CI, 10.1%-12.1%]), there was a greater prevalence among those with a diagnosis of dyslipidemia (50.0% [95% CI, 30.3%-69.7%]; age-adjusted prevalence ratio [PR], 2.09 [95% CI, 1.43-3.06]), hypertension (43.6% [95% CI, 27.3%-59.9%]; age-adjusted PR, 1.88 [95% CI, 1.34-2.65]), or obesity (22.3% [95% CI, 15.9%-28.7%]; age-adjusted PR, 1.47 [95% CI, 1.10-1.96]), but smoking (14.1% [95% CI, 8.0%-20.2%]) was not significantly associated with a higher prevalence of atherosclerosis (age-adjusted PR, 1.12 [95% CI, 0.73-1.74]).Sacrilege! Heresy!
"Smoke them if you got them." I'm kidding, but they gave you 4 cigarettes with each "C ration" meal, IIRC, and field units were supplemented with "sundry packs" that included free cartons of smokes, etc. This is a FReebie. Happy New Year!
haven’t we been told that America is so fat we can’t supply the military?
C Rations, now there’s a blast from the past.
There were several memorable events of 1968, and one of them was when Ham and Lima Beans were taken out of our C-rations and replaced by spaghetti. Also removed from C-rations that year were the cookies in the C-ration B-3 unit and the white bread from the B-2 unit. Really missed those cookies, but never developed a taste for the white bread.
As for the Ham and Lima Beans, there are mixed emotions. The Ham and Limas weren’t that bad if you could heat them up before attempting to eat them; you just had to melt that inch of lard that coagulated at the top of the can. There’s no way of telling how many calories were packed into those cans of Ham and Limas, but it had to be way over a thousand, and just how many of those calories were from pig fat, no one even wants to know. The good thing about that meal was that you could eat a can in the morning and drive on all day before getting hungry enough to face another can of Ham and Limas. I wonder how many of us are still carrying part of those cans of Ham and Lima Beans around in our arteries.
Being in a war zone puts the average person under stress... I assume that was factored in... right?
Ok, sure, maybe the soldiers, airmen, seamen and marines are "fitter." Most of the new recruits (not all, but most) are also dumber and less intelligent. This whole new "fitter, leaner" military push was all a ruse to force out the more intelligent, more moral, more patriotic military member in order to replace them with more compliant, more liberal, more immoral, "One World Order-ish" military member who will have no problem firing upon his fellow American if given the order to do so.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE DONE! I know, I see it happen every day. Good decent men and women are being forced out to make room for future troops loyal only to the UN and Obama.
When this country goes to civil war, and it will, I wouldn't expect the military to side with the patriotic American who is trying to save his nation, I expect to be fired upon by those who "should be" standing up for America, but instead are standing up for the UN and Obama.
Can you tell I'm angry? Hey, that can be my tag line!
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Breakthrough of the Year, 2012 Just click on Science.
Cutting edge chemistry in 2012
Slideshow: Virgin Birth Not So Miraculous in Animal Kingdom
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
Happy New Year!
Check the link in comment# 1 and the other links in comments# 11 or 12.
>> but smoking (14.1% [95% CI, 8.0%-20.2%]) was not significantly associated with a higher prevalence of atherosclerosis (age-adjusted PR, 1.12 [95% CI, 0.73-1.74]).
Sacrilege indeed.
Did the layman’s research for the effects of cigar smoking, but the data I found never pointed to conclusive statistics that I could at least discern. Nonetheless, I cut back to play it safe.