Re: Turmeric article; studies underway to develop disease treatments

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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:45:40 +1300, Quentin Grady
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On 1 Mar 2006 06:34:55 -0800, "Anil" <navkal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can give you additional data point. Kerala a state in southern most
tip of India has av life span of 72 yrs and compares very well with any
1st world numbers. Yet it is very poor but the literacy rate is the
highest in India about 78%. It is also a state where fish is
predominant in its diet. Based on the study I have seen the rate of
Diabetes in Kerala is 5.8% very similar to US rate and twice that of
India as a whole. Ref: http://tinyurl.com/zoqrh

G'day G'day Anil,

I read your posts with interest. If nothing else it is a kind of
fascination with how people mislead themselves. You would like there
to be a higher incidence of T2 diabetes where people eat more protein
and fat. It would fit your vegan beliefs. In the post you have above
you may well have hoped that people would be taken in by the
suggestion that there is some sort of correlation between high fish
intake and high incidence of T2 diabetes. Of course there isn't. The
Japanese have high fish intakes and weren't world beaters in having
high levels of T2 diabetes. The Okinawans about 100 gram pork, 100
gms tofu, and 100 gram seaweed per day and guess what, they weren't
suffering from a high incidence of T2 diabetes. They average 22% of
calories from protein compared to the US 14%. It's about 50% more.

The good news is you provided the URL for the data on Kerala and we
can all read it and draw our own conclusions.


When compared to a population with standard age structure suggested
by the World Health Organization for international comparisons,
prevalence in the age group 30-64 years was found to be 16.9% in
the urban, 10.1% in the midland, 6.8% in the highland and 3.6% in
the coastal regions, respectively

Notice these simple things. The worst group is the urban regions.
These are the people who are most likely to adopt Western diets and to
have a sedentary lifestyle.

Now notice the other remarkably revealing data,

Coastal 3.6%
Midlands 10.1%
Highlands 6.8%

Highlands almost always implies greater physical activity, walking up
and down hills.

So what are the coastal people doing that is SO BENEFICIAL?

Perhaps it is sunbathing on the beaches. Not.

I think we can all guess it is that people on the coastal region eat
MORE FISH. Remember your description of Kerala as a poor province.
One can't expect refrigerated trucks making fish way inland as cheap
as on the coast.

Best wishes,

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Quentin Grady ^ ^ /
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