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To: Ilaine who wrote (21916)	9/3/2007 6:21:19 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218145

counter action to mercury (from seafood) and lead (from chinaware, walls, water) and arsenic (from insecticide/fertilizer) is to take regular dollops of selenium, zinc, broccoli, cranberry juice, and garlic

To: Ilaine who wrote (21916)	9/3/2007 6:39:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218145

CB, in a way, it's lucky we don't live too long. We bury our mistakes. I'll take a good dose of mercury, lead and other toxins with me. I remember as a 4 year old, my father mixing lead oxide powder into paint and telling me to stand back a bit as it's poisonous. I didn't realize that it would have been wafting around the place and I was getting some. I used heat lead up to make lots of sinkers. I spray painted things in the early 1970s [as a commercial spray painter] with lead and other toxins without breathing equipment in an enclosed factory, ending up coughing up the yellow paint. Given our levels of stupidity, it's surprising humans last as well as we do. I wonder what really stupid things I'm doing today? Before I was given a foot high stack of information on lead in petrol [gasoline] in 1983, I had thought that it couldn't be a problem as there was so little of it and that it was pretty well blowing away and dispersed. After reading all the data I realized that it was a vast mistake being made to have lead in petrol. A bigger one still to have lead in paint, on roofs for potable water collection, in plumbing, in food canning [solder] and all the hell over the place. I suppose MAD [as in Mutual Assured Destruction] is up there as a mad thing to do. Then there are iodine, iron, vitamin C, folic acid, and other nutrient deficiencies. The gene pool is swimming in dangerous recessive genes with random mating ensuring blighted lives for offspring. Mqurice

To: Ilaine who wrote (21916)	9/3/2007 6:49:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218145

If I remember rightly, the best correlation with intelligence is mother's intelligence. Lead and other toxins are well down the list, which is some comfort. Our main problem remains our rotten DNA, which is closely related to chimps. So we shouldn't expect much from our mental acuity. But it's still annoying to be dragged down from even our minimal potential. Life is hard enough without bonus stupidity. Across the world, Negroes have lower average IQs than others and it's not explained just by lead, dietary deficiencies etc, though they are assuredly problems, as they are for other people. By country, there are quite large intelligence differences and Griffe du Lion has done some interesting thinking about the effects on GDP and tested his theories against actual results. See "Smart Fraction Theory" etc. lagriffedulion.f2s.com Note Hong Kong's wealth and expectation of it from the theory. Mqurice