X-Message-Number: 13425 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 07:49:40 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #13419 - #13424 One reason so few people died of heart disease: About the lack of heart disease in primitive peoples: it is important here to look at the ages at which they died, and their reasons for death. It is only quite recently that most people started living to ages more than 50 or so. Yes, a few people did live for much longer, but they hardly made any effect on either the population or the statistics of that population. Basically I strongly suspect that Skrecky will find out a very simple reason why heart disease has not been prominent among primitive peoples: they all died some time before they could normally develop heart disease in the first place. It's important, in any case, that if we go around looking at the reasons for death of people (say) 100 or 200 years ago, we also look at their AGES of death --- normally much less than the ages we see people dying now. Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13425