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To: E. Charters who wrote (11350)	5/15/2006 10:41:12 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

<Cancer causes cancer, not cigarettes.> <For causation we may apply these rough principles.> Or this simple one: Nothing "causes" anything, shit happens (like cancer) when conditions are right. <diets and our western culture of refined and prepared food.> I think it's pretty safe to assume that diet can profoundly change the 'conditions' in your body. :) Oh, and don't forget that obesity is linked to most health problems big time, including the ones you sighted. But don't worry about your diet, it's much to simple a concept for scientists to figure out... and much to complex for a linear "scientific" trial to show. McDonalds stock is safe for now -gggg- DAK

To: E. Charters who wrote (11350)	5/16/2006 1:21:01 AM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

<To tie it fiendishly and gratuitously to the subject of this thread, I wonder if techniques to weasel trends out of graphs of stock data could be used to correlate disease or weather/climate with their causative factors and predict changes to trends indicated by changing factors within the equation? Could Bernstein's TA formulae find trends in medical charts?> Extraction of information from medical statistics is called epidemiology. A good epidemiologist uses every statistical trick in the book, particularly of the trend-extracting variety. At present I am working in IT at a medical lab. This week one of my tasks will be to write a custom data extract from a large Laboratory InFormation System database to form a baseline against which to evaluate some new epidemiological software, alas for my always-inquisitive mind of no real sophistication. LC