tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8918963530338970466..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Abusing Our Bodies and OurselvesStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-83752300681362758172013-04-16T03:32:03.473-07:002013-04-16T03:32:03.473-07:00Thanks for the link, Bob.Thanks for the link, Bob.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-16019791196244508662013-04-15T20:30:59.162-07:002013-04-15T20:30:59.162-07:00Important topic. I am a Wal-Mart cashier. You woul...Important topic. I am a Wal-Mart cashier. You would not believe the crap I put in bags all day long. I have linked to you here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2013/04/medication-or-good-habits.htmlBob's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34849848475497471262013-04-15T05:53:05.726-07:002013-04-15T05:53:05.726-07:00I used to love keeping both saltwater and freshwat...I used to love keeping both saltwater and freshwater fish. I went into great detail in creating their natural environments. Real plants, real sunken trees, et al.<br />I had a couple of tanks devoted to corals that were just absolutely beautiful. I decided, for some reason, that I wanted to ensure the cleanliness of their environment. They started to slowly die on me because I forgot to consider that I was actually removing their food from them and that like much of existence one cannot survive if one removes its ability to deal with life as it is and not how one would like it to be.<br />Wisdom far exceeds education and a lot of that comes from experiences.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65259585877203654972013-04-13T10:49:37.760-07:002013-04-13T10:49:37.760-07:00I believe that I have heard this idea before, Denn...I believe that I have heard this idea before, Dennis, but I can't remember where. Either way, it seems perfectly plausible to me.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6548815792144775412013-04-13T10:34:03.851-07:002013-04-13T10:34:03.851-07:00Anon,
There is a reason it is called "Statis...Anon,<br /><br />There is a reason it is called "Statistical Inference" instead of statistical fact. Your point about the complexity of the contributing factors is well taken.<br />I agree that sewer, and especially sanitation are one of the main factors in longevity. That does not mean that one can ignore those things that make a healthy existence. We probably have not gotten enough information on what the unhealthy lifestyles of people who live today to make any rational decision on whether they will actually live longer.<br />I am beginning to believe that the reason our children are so susceptible to disease is that we try to live in a too pristine environment. This does not allow their immune systems time to develop all of the strengths that it needs to protect us. It just gets overpowered by disease when it first experiences it if it recognizes it at all. A little dirt never hurt anyone so to speak.<br />We always pay for abusing anything. Pay me now or pay me latter.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81796560369161904172013-04-12T20:41:38.466-07:002013-04-12T20:41:38.466-07:00Amazing post. I enjoyed a lot.
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Because the factors that impact longevity are complex and widely distributed, statistics cannot say for certain what is or is not a cause of longevity. Applying the law of large numbers a high correlation is equated to causation, but then the experts will say, "correlation is not causation." Maybe the statistics don't mean a damn thing!<br /><br />However we know that better water supplies, more calories in early childhood, understanding how to prevent and treat disease, these are the primary causes of longevity. These causes are socially created for us. No one individual can claim "I built that" with regard to the advances. Who helps us have longevity? Their name is Legion.<br /><br />Stuart S. is saying that some individuals nonetheless make bad choices. Bad choices are based on poor formative experience in the society. Individuals might know what is better to do and still not be able to do it. Saint Paul said, "That which I would do I do not, and that which I would not do, is that which I do." If Saint Paul had poor impulse control how hard it must be for children who are influenced by the media with all sorts of images to copy, to decide what to do, especially if we do not educate the emotions at the heart of the ability to reason or anticipate and regulate cause and effect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49026221411396743182013-04-12T11:54:25.485-07:002013-04-12T11:54:25.485-07:00@ Anonymous, Thy name is Legion. Is the cause of l...@ Anonymous, Thy name is Legion. Is the cause of longivity what is deceptive? For the rest of your post... HUH?Bobbyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43220606476854868172013-04-12T09:19:46.066-07:002013-04-12T09:19:46.066-07:00Statistics on longevity and health can be deceptiv...Statistics on longevity and health can be deceptive. Life expectancy has gone up due to abundance of food, basic advances in health codes and understanding of the biological mechanisms of certain diseases (prevention), sewer and sanitation systems.<br /><br />Simultaneously a person is given an intellectual education also containing the message "sit down, shut up, and listen to me" instead of learning modes of interaction in which one has an "authentic voice" in the community. How do we teach each other to listen and hear if children "should be seen and not heard?" The media blitz puts images in the brain which no tribal culture could ever induce even if one were to live hundreds of years, a teenage has all these images circulating in his or her brain along with the hormones in his or her body.<br /><br />A psychiatrist who prescribes a pill for everything is basically abdicating the process of self - other communication necessary to the job we might call "good parenting." So are parents who work long hours to get money for basic necessities and have not enough time to communicate with the younger generation. The profit motive has a strong influence on the trend toward absentee parents and this explains the problems of a lost generation as much as anything else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47569031916818447652013-04-12T08:24:56.660-07:002013-04-12T08:24:56.660-07:00I too find it bizarre that people are going to liv...I too find it bizarre that people are going to live longer while doing what they can be make themselves unhealthy. I suppose that they will compensate for their bad habits by becoming consumers of the best that medical science has to offer. Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-18049158769939366822013-04-12T08:18:45.507-07:002013-04-12T08:18:45.507-07:00Options or choice is the " problem" if y...Options or choice is the " problem" if you want to call it that. Americans (39% of the wealth of the world) and Europeans (31% of the wealth of the world ) have hundreds of options in our life and lifestyle that we didn't have years ago. In the Mail article it did mention that dispite the overall poor health, people live longer and are expected to live longer. More unhealthy years for more choices.Bobbyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9558058136181996352013-04-12T08:02:51.286-07:002013-04-12T08:02:51.286-07:00I recently read a book called Pandora's Lunchb...I recently read a book called Pandora's Lunchbox about the chemistry and science that goes into making modern-day processed foods.<br /><br />Stephen King couldn't have ever dreamed up anything so horrifying.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09257996711542161966noreply@blogger.com