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<blockquote data-quote="DenizenJane" data-source="post: 1358825" data-attributes="member: 19007"><p>Was debating making a whole new health thread on this kind of thing. One of the sweetest gifts the Creator will ever give us is bits and pieces of natural resistance, probably by genetics, to just about any environmental health problem known to man. This is why medicine is the one field based strictly on percentages. A prescription that helps 90% of people is medicalspeak for 'this stuff really works'. Other sciences don't quite work that way; we never say that we observe gravity working about 90% of the time.</p><p></p><p>Someplace, somewhere there's some woman with a barbie doll figure who can also throw down fast food regularly like its nothing. Because her metabolism is a champ. And her female friends probably hate her for it. Now, she and others like her are an utter minority on this planet, but I'm saying that they exist.</p><p></p><p>I remember visiting Gramps at the retirement home, and depending on the time of day, you would see this old lady outside. She had to be in her mid-nineties. The first couple times I thought I was witnessing a Silver Alert in progress, and that I would have go inside and alert them that one of their residents got confused and wandered away. Now, this biddy with her snow-white hair and her walker would hobble to the middle of the parking lot and suddenly stop.</p><p></p><p>She then would slowly rummage into the fabric pouch velcroed to her walker. She would then pull out a bic and a cigarette and light up.</p><p></p><p>Don't smoke, kids. But I still found it hilarious. I'll bet that woman was probably the one of the happiest people in the world even without the nicotine buzz, because she discovered her God given niche; her lungs. She could of been the type worked all her life in an asbestos-laced environment and retired without so much as a cough.</p><p></p><p>The message here isn't to ignore your health. Because by the time you figure out what your body is especially weak to, its almost too late. I'm saying all these onslaughts of modern maladies will never ever conquer us all. God had provided us a wide array of genes to ward off the nastiest environments and habits on this planet.</p><p></p><p>I believe the modern world causes a lot of our health problems, from things like nearsightedness to crooked teeth, all of which are broad topics for another day. Additionally, the modern world provides (expensive) fixes for these same things. Even when these things affect so much of the population that they reach critical mass and gets Social Problem status, there will always be bodies that (thankfully) never get with the program. We should be very grateful for this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DenizenJane, post: 1358825, member: 19007"] Was debating making a whole new health thread on this kind of thing. One of the sweetest gifts the Creator will ever give us is bits and pieces of natural resistance, probably by genetics, to just about any environmental health problem known to man. This is why medicine is the one field based strictly on percentages. A prescription that helps 90% of people is medicalspeak for 'this stuff really works'. Other sciences don't quite work that way; we never say that we observe gravity working about 90% of the time. Someplace, somewhere there's some woman with a barbie doll figure who can also throw down fast food regularly like its nothing. Because her metabolism is a champ. And her female friends probably hate her for it. Now, she and others like her are an utter minority on this planet, but I'm saying that they exist. I remember visiting Gramps at the retirement home, and depending on the time of day, you would see this old lady outside. She had to be in her mid-nineties. The first couple times I thought I was witnessing a Silver Alert in progress, and that I would have go inside and alert them that one of their residents got confused and wandered away. Now, this biddy with her snow-white hair and her walker would hobble to the middle of the parking lot and suddenly stop. She then would slowly rummage into the fabric pouch velcroed to her walker. She would then pull out a bic and a cigarette and light up. Don't smoke, kids. But I still found it hilarious. I'll bet that woman was probably the one of the happiest people in the world even without the nicotine buzz, because she discovered her God given niche; her lungs. She could of been the type worked all her life in an asbestos-laced environment and retired without so much as a cough. The message here isn't to ignore your health. Because by the time you figure out what your body is especially weak to, its almost too late. I'm saying all these onslaughts of modern maladies will never ever conquer us all. God had provided us a wide array of genes to ward off the nastiest environments and habits on this planet. I believe the modern world causes a lot of our health problems, from things like nearsightedness to crooked teeth, all of which are broad topics for another day. Additionally, the modern world provides (expensive) fixes for these same things. Even when these things affect so much of the population that they reach critical mass and gets Social Problem status, there will always be bodies that (thankfully) never get with the program. We should be very grateful for this. [/QUOTE]
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