"cyberpurrs" > wrote in message
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>
> "Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:32:28 -0400, "cybercat" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Find one ****ing study that says that drinking alcohol can CAUSE
>>>hemochromatosis.
>>
>> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/000327.htm
>> http://digestive-system.emedtv.com/h...atosis-p2.html
>> http://sadieo.ucsf.edu/course/things...005/Powell.pdf
>>
>> Christy told me that they had determined, at the Mayo Clinic in
>> Florida, that hers was the acquired (secondary) variety, not the
>> hereditary (primary) version *and* that it was caused by drinking. No
>> one in her family has any history of the disease.
>>
>> Did you read the memorial page that her sister set up? Read the very
>> end. Why would her family write something like that if it was, in
>> fact, an hereditary disease?
>>
>
> I have no knowlege of this page and am not interested in seeing it. All I
> can say is that your take on the research is very different than mine. I
> believe you, and perhaps Christy have both been sold a bill of goods.
>
> My disgust at Allan and you for turning a very valid discussion of the
> fact that he has put her cats outside into this kind of display could not
> be deeper. Ugh. Shame on you.

Between this group and another I read I can't believe it turned into this.
Maybe I missed something but why did anyone think we needed to know about
the drinking? Maybe I shouldn't even ask but I just don't understand.