I think that Jaguarbase just about has it right. Today there are still a few bushmen left in Africa who hunt much like our early ancestors did. They stalk an animal, running it down for many hours, until they eventually chase it down and kill it. These skinny men and their families probably still only eat meat once or so a month. Driving to the local McDonald's for a greasy burger bares no resemblance to what our meat eating ancestors did.
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...New Study on Vegetarian`s...Not as Healthy as Some may Think...
by OUTLAW insydney (afp) - people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, australian researchers said thursday.. a joint australian-vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher tuan nguyen.. the issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, nguyen said.. there was "practically no difference" between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said.. "the results suggest that vegetarian diets, particularly vegan diets, are associated with lower bone mineral density," nguyen wrote in the study, which was published thursday in the american journal of clinical nutrition.
"but the magnitude of the association is clinically insignificant," he added.. nguyen, who is from sydney's garvan institute for medical research and collaborated on the project with the pham ngoc thach university of medicine in ho chi minh city, said the question of whether the lower density bones translated to increased fracture risk was yet to be answered.. "given the rising number of vegetarians, roughly five percent (of people) in western countries, and the widespread incidence of osteoporosis, the issue is worth resolving," he said.. .
article taken from yahoo news ...........................outlaw.
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Ambition in older age - watch out you thirty somethings
by eyeslice ina couple of topics recently have made me think.
first, there was snowbird's "i think i am getting old" and the news that farrah fawcett has died at the relatively young age of 62.. also, the economic down turn has started older people wondering if retirement as we used to know it will be a thing of the past.
i am 56 years old but somehow never see myself retiring in the traditional sense of the word.. i am beginning to think that we are beginning to the time when older people will become more and more ambitious.
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eyeslice
A couple of topics recently have made me think. First, there was Snowbird's "I think I am getting old" and the news that Farrah Fawcett has died at the relatively young age of 62.
Also, the economic down turn has started older people wondering if retirement as we used to know it will be a thing of the past. I am 56 years old but somehow never see myself retiring in the traditional sense of the word.
I am beginning to think that we are beginning to the time when older people will become more and more ambitious. Older people today enjoy unpresidented levels of good health. And, free form the responsibilities of children, the burden of mortgages and needing relatively little in terms of material things, could free up older people to become entrepeneurs, starting up new businesses, to become more educated (degrees, PhDs, etc.) and to devoting quality time to public services and charities.
So I say watch out you young ones, the age of the older person is here!
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eyeslice
I was never a Charle's Angel fan but Farrah was a good looking woman.
For us baby-boomers it is a sad reminder of how life is fragile for all of us.
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An Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses
by AK - Jeff indear jw's -.
i was, not too long ago, one of you.
i loved jehovah, and his organization.
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eyeslice
Hi Jeff
Your letter expresses exactly my feelings.
I grew up a witness and spent the majority of my adult life working hard for the organisation. I too would have died for my beliefs or willingly given my life for others. But the reality is that sincerely believing in something is not going to make it true. Rather than teaching the simple true of Jeus, the society has focused on an end of the world doctrine and a 'ministry' that is unclear and ill defined, certainly not the ministry of the good news of the Christ. How sad.
Eyeslice
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Jesus Found Him
by passwordprotected inthis will be posted on freeminds in due course for the benefit of jws who are reading the articles there;.
there are two accounts in the bible centered around jesus that were a great help to me as i was leaving the control of the watch tower society.. to me, the watch tower society, with it's governing body and local representatives, the elders, were my religious leaders.
i was, in all truth, a religious person.
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eyeslice
I attended the district convention with my wife at the weekend.
JW or not, you have to admit that Jesus plays very little part in this religion. Jesus is rarely mentioned at all in their retoric and although there was lots of mentions of 'the ministry' exactly what this ministry is is unclear and certainly has little to do with the good news of the Christ.
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What are you reading right now?
by keyser soze ini'm reading the trial, by franz kafka.
pretty interesting read so far, though i'm only about 90 pages into it.
it's about a man who is arrested, but no one will tell him what he's been charged with, or give him any information at all.
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eyeslice
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (same author as the Kite Runner).
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (not sure what I make of this!)
On my reading book for the summer - Siddartha - I have read a few books about the Buddha so this will be an interesting take. Also, ust a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale Pope (who ran 20,000 miles solo: 53 pairs of shoes and 29 proposals of marriage. This woman is going to become my new running hero!!!). What I Talk About When I am Running by Haruki Murakami.
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Getting Baptised Next Week
by passwordprotected inquick note to say that gail and i are getting baptised as christians next sunday, 12pm, riverside gospel church..
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eyeslice
PasswordProtected - I hope all goes well for you and your good wife next week.
I have often wondered whether I would really need to get baptised again if I started practicing a different faith. I was baptised before the change of the JW vows. This means the second question wasn't to the effect "do understand that your baptism indentifies you as one of Jehovah's Witnesses' but more along the lines that you will in future do God's will as directed by his holy spirit. So although I no longer practice as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I still regard my baptism as valid.
Eyeslice
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Are most Jehovah's Witnesses zealous,fence sitters,or going thru the motions?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthere are close to 7 million baptised jehovah's witnesses in the world.
most start off real zealous in meeting attendance and preaching work.
some remain zealous but most cool off sooner or later.
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eyeslice
I think that the general consensus of the posters here is correct. More and more are just going through the motions.
I couldn't do that - for me it had to be all or nothing - so I chose nothing.
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Slumdog Millionaire! Go see it!
by free2think ini just got back from seeing it and it is fantastic.
all i can say is go see it!.
it was so moving, kept me gripped for the whole time and now i wanna go to india.. also the leading lady, frieda pinto is beautiful..
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eyeslice
Yes great film ....... but .... the greatest Bollywood/English film has to be Laagan. You do have to be Indian and love cricket to truely appreciate it though!
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I'd buy these two ladies a Kabab
by SixofNine inthey're so beautiful, like a tree, or a high class prostitute.. eric hill, cnn's ac 360 vixen, minx, and mischevious looking cutie pie:.
....and frieda pinto, co-star of slumdog millionaire:.
this goes out to all the beautiful girls:.
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eyeslice
Indian women can be very beautiful when young. Do a google search for aishwarya - porbably the best looking woman in the world!
I used to live in India and had two boys in their late teens out with me. My advice when looking at the young India girls, was go home and meet their mothers; the chances are their daughters will look like them in 20 years time - often overweight and with the slight hint of moustache!