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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!grayhawk.rent.com!iowegia!quest
- From: quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: History of AC vs DC Power >>THE TRUTH!<< *=*
- Message-ID: <5TBDuB2w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:30:51 CST
- References: <FRANL.92Nov14153854@draco.centerline.com>
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- Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.
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- franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
-
- > quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest) writes:
- >
- > > steve@pepe.aero.org (Steve Sedlacek) writes:
- > >
- > > > A new Swedish study apparently confirms a moderate
- > > > correlation between living near high-power transmission lines and cancers
- >
- > > It is also a known fact that there is a high rate of
- > > cancer among uneducated and poor people.
- >
- > Fine so far...
- >
- > > The reason being, they
- > > simply do not have proper hygiene, sanitation, or eating habits.
- >
- > Whoa!!! Strike hygiene from that list. Unless by "do not have proper
- > hygiene" you mean "fail to wash hazardous/radioactive waste off they
- > hands after contact", dirt on your skin won't give you cancer.
-
- Fran,
-
- It is not the "dirt" on ones hands that can give one
- cancer- it is the bacteria that can. If one autoinfects with
- certain strains of bacteria, the metabolic byproducts of this
- bacteria can cause (and does cause) cancer in humans. This is an
- accepted medical truth. The idea behind eating high fiber diets
- is to minimize the exposure ones colon and rectum have to face
- from these anaerobes that excrete carcinogenic metabolites. The
- "fiber" absorbs the toxins, gives rise to more rapid evacuation of
- the bowels- thus reducing exposure, and promotes the overgrowth of
- nonhazardous forms of bacteria (e.g. Escharichia Coli).
-
- The poor and uneducated often don't wash their hands to
- eat, and thus infect themselves with whatever they have handled
- during the day. Given this, they often have diets poor in fiber,
- rich in fat, smoke and drink. Four strikes, and you're out....sq
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