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To: Horgad who wrote (118717)	6/17/2009 3:04:11 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 132070

So where is the tv show? The cause of longevity in these people could be the good nutrition and hard work they do generation after generation. Like some people in this country grow up learning how to eat, while others never figure out a healthy diet. I would say the families that live to 90 are the ones who already have good eating habits taught to them by their parents. This paper you posted says nothing about you can live a slovenly life to 90. longevity-science.org "...very steep offspring-parent dependence (high narrow-sense heritability) for longer lived parents. These findings explain the existing longevity paradox: although the heritability estimates for lifespan are rather low, the exceptional longevity has a strong familial association."

To: Horgad who wrote (118717)	6/19/2009 8:31:12 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 132070

Interesting breitbart.com

To: Horgad who wrote (118717)	6/19/2009 11:06:51 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Horgad, genetics play a huge role in almost everything about us. this is intuitive. the idea that each body and it's responses are somehow identical and only external factors impact our health, wellness and physical ability is too silly for even the dark ages. having said that, diet can play a huge role in how our genes are expressed. in one example, they took 14000 people and divided them up into several groups (i seem to recall 4) and the one that ate a mediterranean diet minus the the high glycemic load carbohydrates (over stimulates insulin and delta-5-desaturase) had an 83% reduction in the incidence of diabetes. iow, it is a reasonable conclusion that many folks who were predisposed to get diabetes on the other diets didn't get diabetes on this mediterranean diet minus the high glycemic load carbs. news.bbc.co.uk i consider my diet, the zone diet, to be the next evolution of the mediterranian diet. in short, a larger than 83% reduction in diabetes if a strict zone diet were followed. i'm genetically predisposed to allergies, but they have been reduced over 95% due to my dietary change. i'm genetically predisposed to getting colds, but since i started my zone diet, i stopped missing about 5 days a year due to colds (and another 5 days at work feeling miserable) and started missing zero (26 months and counting). manuel uribe was genetically predisposed to gain weight, which is why he woke up one day weighing 1234 lbs and being the fattest man on the earth. #1. he ate more than 30k calories a day, was still hungry all the time and was very depressed. he's been following the anti-inflammatory, hormonally balanced zone diet for just over 3 years and he's now about 700 lbs. that's over 500 lbs of excess weight loss. he now eats just over 2k calories a day, isn't hungry and is now quite happy. his genes are the exact same, but his diet isn't - and it made all the difference. genes are huge, but you can't change them. diet is huge and you can use it to control the expression of your genes - which is exactly what dr. sears set out to do and, to a great degree, accomplished. dr. sears' father and two uncles died in their mid 50s from heart disease. he knew what was likely in store for him if he didn't find a way to manipulate the expression of his genes. dr. sears is doing quite well into his early 60s - so far so good. here's another example of gene expression being manipulated by diet. drsears.com there are many more in the testimonial section.