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Jim Webster
 
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Default Mad Cow Variant That Hits Humans Is a Puzzle


"Zakhar" > wrote in message
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> "Jim Webster" > wrote in message
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> > "Ron" > wrote in message
> > om...
> > > Alf Christophersen > wrote in

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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.
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Or a meat eater's disease.
> > >
> > >

> >
> > actually the proportion of vegetarians in the UK who have developed

nvCJD
> is
> > about the same as the proportion they form of the population.,

>
> Crap.
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> The one so called 'vegetarian' who got nvCJD "occasionally ate meat".


most vegetarians do actually, most of my best customers for beef are lapsed
vegetarians

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

>
> So?
>


obviously if you cannot understand it, it is hardly my place to enlighten
you

Jim Webster