Food for thought

[Pam]

[Set]

Do you remember any of your past lives? I remember being some sort of prehistoric megafauna. I had the same questions then as I do now. What...the...hell? And then I died.

What does that mean?

It means that I'm just talking to hear the typing of my own fingers.

Yep. Like everyone one else I was a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

[Egg]

We always hear about how the establishment of agriculture thousands of years ago did so much for the early societies. A new study puts this myth to rest as it points out that the health of the early people actually declined as they lost the diversity in their diet. It slowly bounced back:

"Dawn of Agriculture Took Toll On Health

ScienceDaily (June 18, 2011) — When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: The height and health of the people declined.

"This broad and consistent pattern holds up when you look at standardized studies of whole skeletons in populations," says Amanda Mummert, an Emory graduate student in anthropology.
Mummert led the first comprehensive, global review of the literature regarding stature and health during the agriculture transition, to be published by the journal Economics and Human Biology.

"Many people have this image of the rise of agriculture and the dawn of modern civilization, and they just assume that a more stable food source makes you healthier," Mummert says. "But early agriculturalists experienced nutritional deficiencies and had a harder time adapting to stress, probably because they became dependent on particular food crops, rather than having a more significantly diverse diet."

Continued here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 094514.htm

It's late, I'll look for it later but I've read about this before.....

I just read your whole post - everything I was going to say is in the post HA!!! Yeah, farming brought on illness and weakness, apparently.

[Royal]

Mike O'Hare

God visits a man and tells him he must give up smoking, drinking and sex if he wants to get into Heaven. The man says he’ll try. God visits him a week later to see how he’s getting on. “Not bad” says the man, “I’ve given up drinking and smoking, but when the wife bent over the freezer, I had to fuck her up the arse.” “They don’t like that sort of thing in Heaven” said God. The man replied, “They’re not too fucking happy about it in Woolworths either!

ahahah!

[lkwalker]

Cleanup on aisle four please.