chico chupacabra wrote:
> lesley, foot masseuse who pretends to be a learned scientist, wrote:
>
> > > http://www.thebukkakeagency.com/DyingForAHamburger.htm
> >
> > Thanks, shevek.
>
>
> > 'Absolutely impossible, insisted British health authorities, that mad
> > cow disease could be transmitted to humans through infected beef.
> > Yet less than a decade later, hundreds of people (including recent
> > victims in Saskatchewan and Florida) who ate infected beef have died
> > of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), with perhaps hundreds of thousands
> > more at risk for developing the disease. Could the same scenario hold
> > true for Alzheimer's disease?
>
> Nope. Two completely different diseases.
>
> > Before about 1900 Alzheimer's disease did not exist
>
> Yes, it did.
> Progressive mental deterioration in old age has been recognized
> and described throughout history. However, in was not until the
> early part of the 20th century that a collection of brain cell
> abnormalities were specifically identified by Dr. Alois
> Alzheimer, a German physician, in 1906.
> http://www.ahaf.org/alzdis/about/adhistory.htm
>
> The issue isn't the rate of the disease, but the increased life
> expectancy in the last century:
> Life expectancy increased dramatically in the 20th century,
> especially in developed nations. Life expectancy at birth in
> the United States in 1901 was 49 years. At the end of the
> century it was 77 years, an increase of 57%.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
>
> The reason there are more cases today than there were 100 years ago is
> because people are living almost 60% longer than they did 100 years
> ago. You ****ing retard.
>

There's enough evidence here to show that meat eating is linked to
Tourette's syndrome.

And you are pretty smart to realize that if longevity is correlated to
alheimers incidence, then nothing else could possibly play a role.