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"Ron" > wrote in message
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> Alf Christophersen > wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:34:55 GMT, (PropMan) wrote:
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> > >But the only way to make a definitive diagnosis is to do a detailed
> > >examination of the brain after death. The brains of vCJD patients have
> > >telltale deposits of plaque. There are also subtle differences in the
> > >prion proteins that can be detected by chemical analysis.
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> > Sounds more and more like an AGE disease where proteins are deformed
> > by abnormal glycations and form new tertiary structures, like the
> > typical beta-pleated sheet that prions form.
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> > In case, it is possible that the reason is rather in a fatal
> > combination of too high sugar use in diet and lack of antioxidants.
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> Or a meat eater's disease.
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actually the proportion of vegetarians in the UK who have developed nvCJD is
about the same as the proportion they form of the population.,

Vegetarians have their children vaccinated from vaccines grown on bovine
foetal serum etc

Jim Webster