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Response to sendero (Reply #51)
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 07:39 PM
Silent3 (13,118 posts)
56. As I was saying, for centuries and centuries average human lifespan...
...has been miserable by modern standards, only 30-40 years as recently as two centuries ago.
When considering what's "natural" or not, please realize that long, healthy lives well into our 70s, 80s, and even 90s, is a wonderfully unnatural thing, not a realization of any basic nature. Our longest lifespans have corresponded with our creation of an increasingly unnatural environment. This is hardly to say that everything modern is healthy -- far from it -- but that, on the whole, the negative aspects of modern life that are mixed in with the positive ones can't be all that hugely bad if they haven't even come close to negating the gains. If specifically apples harbor no worries in long term use, many other things from bananas to zucchini might. Or they might all be perfectly safe in normal use, but if you tested them the way artificial additives are tested, in huge doses and unrealistic concentrations, the same fears could arise. The only advantage it makes sense that so-called "natural" foods would intrinsically have (once you jettison the mystical appeal of "nature" ![]() |
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