[Regia-NA] FW: Fossilized feces are a veritable trove of human DNA
Jeanne
jeanne at atasteofcreole.com
Sun Jul 11 05:59:57 EDT 2004
Mum was a 60s Woodstock, Vegen before she became a Jehovah's Witness. So we
grew up pretty much w/o sugar. If my little brother got a piece of candy,
hyper activity soon followed. Mum would call the schools to make sure no
sugary dessert, nor fruit cut (in a sugar syrup) was given to us.
Seems alcoholism runs in our family and someone is addicted to something.
Mum can't eat sugar anything. I've seen her drop her credit card at a
bakery and go nuts! My little brother (now over 6 feet tall!) is so wiry
and thin (he's a blacksmith/artist/stone caster/you name it) that if he eats
pasta is converts in sugar (shrimp also! and living in New Orleans is bad
something's!) and he gets Manic! Drives his wife nuts. But at least he
gets yard work done, but using a weed whacker on 2 acres is quite nuts, even
for MY family of Irishmen!
Soffya
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From: Timothy Dill-Peterson
To: list-Regia-NA
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] FW: Fossilized feces are a veritable trove of
human DNA
On the subject of Diabetes
It is a relatively modern disease. The culprit is refined sugar. When
sugar was first used in its refined form it was recognized as a powerful and
dangerous medicine. Refined white sugar affects the digestion by drawing out
of the body all the vitamins and nutrients required to convert it into
energy. This produces a blood-sugar imbalance which the body tries to
correct by increasing insulin production. As a result, the short term rush
produced by ingesting refined sugar is followed by a loss of energy. Further
more, any energy not burned up is converted to fat for later use. The
continual rush and drop of energy which can prompt a desire for another
injection of sugar causes the body to go up and down like a yo-yo or an out
of control elevator. Eventual the body looses the ability to pull the
elevator back down with insulin and the elevator crashes. Naturally
occurring sugars are accompanied by the necessary nutrients to properly dig
est it. So we can safely assume that diabetes was not a problem for our
medieval forebears. One interesting historical note was that brewers were
forbidden from tainting their brew by adding refined sugar. Any brewer found
doing so was put in the dung cart and hauled around the village to be
covered in night soil. Remember this when your hyperactive kids clamor for a
soda or an ice cream. Smile at them and give them some fruit juice or a
handful of nuts or berries. As their heroin like addiction to sugar is
broken you will be rewarded with calmer kids who no longer need drugs to
counteract their ADD. Of course you have to put up with six months of
withdrawal symptoms which will make the sugared up kids seem like angels in
comparison but once they kick the habit, they will never go back.
Yours for a sweeter, sugar free society
Tim
for more info see http://www.dolfzine.com/page162.htm Mr Dufty's book
Sugar Blues contains a fascinating history of the drug trade in refined
sugar from ancient times to the present day. It also contains some great
recipes for sugar free cooking. You will note that any mediaeval recipes do
not call for sugar - honey, fruit and other natural sweeteners but no sugar.
Also for the smokers among you, naturally dried tobacco such as you find in
cigars or Russian, Chinese and French cigarettes have virtually no sugar in
them. The process converts all the sugar. American tobacco is a blend of
naturally dried and flue dried - a process where convection heat is used to
speed the curing process and sugar and molasses based sauces are used to
help the process and the flavor. British tobacco is almost all flue dried.
The corresponding cancer rates from smoking: UK Highest - America Medium -
France/Russia/China - Lowest! This may or may not have anything to do with
the sugar content of the tobacco but, living in Tampa, I'm sticking with
cigars! !
> [Original Message]
> From: rmhowe <MMagnusM at bellsouth.net>
> To: list-Regia-NA <list-regia-na at lig.net>
> Date: 6/25/04 1:26:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] FW: Fossilized feces are a veritable trove of
human DNA
>
> Jeanne/ VÖRÖSHAJÚ SOFFYA (a northern Atlantian of a newly nearly
> unpronouncable titular? name) posted:
>
> > "The thing that diabetes and ancient sh ** have in common is that
they
> > produce condensation products because of excess sugar,"
>
> > "A bone now is completely boring to me," Dr. Poinar says. "Because
the
> > bone gives the DNA of the organism itself, but the coprolite gives
the
> > DNA of the organism, what it ate, of any parasites he may have
> > harboured. I mean it's a plethora of information."
>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20
040619/POOP19/TPScience/
>
>
> Thank you for the link, I finally had my curiosity sated as
> to why diabetics lose their feet and lower limbs. I wondered.
> A sad fact indeed. Never thought to be coarse enough to ask one.
> I'm hyperglycemic myself but not a diabetic yet.
> Hope I don't become one.
>
> Somehow I think I'll stick with skeletal materials work, that
> is -quite- smelly enough for me and SheWhoMustBeCountenanced.
>
> Only the English would think of having scratch and sniff cards
> made from genuine [reconstituted] Viking -pongs- for sale at York,
> or a giant Viking Pong on display, recently in need of urgent
> repair according to an internet archaeology article, as all the
> sniffing likely dessicated and crumbled it. A national treasure.
> [One would think De Gaulle got too close with his tornado chamber.]
> I recall it first was advertised by the Jorvi k Viking Center almost
> a decade ago proudly on the web.
>
> Of course there is that wonderful moment of reflecting on the
> intended recipient's face when he truly realizes just what it is
> you've joyfully sent to him, eh? [Probably where the Irish got
> their fractious dispositions from. Love the music. Wonder if
> the rapid beat came from the drums warning first of the Normans
> and then the English repeatedly.]
>
> But the following is simply going too far:
>
> > "After two decades as a largely unheralded coprolite crusader,
> > Dr. Callen died in his bedroom-cum-coprolite lab....
>
> See now, this is simply taking faecephilia too damned far, even
> for a PhD. In fact this exceeds any PhD I knew in 16 years around
> a university, even the most boring of the many anthropologists
> I had for classes. Thought I learned all these cultural tidb its
> on the web did you? Nah. Some I read in the local newspaper too.
>
> As a teenager I used to get stomach cramps from sleeping in a room
> with my oil paintings. It didn't take me two decades to figure out it
> was making me sick. Mustard fumes are similar as I discovered when
> I filled condiment bottles for the tables at the boarding school's
> cafeteria. Would hit me two hours later. Same place.
>
> > in August, 1970, in the Peruvian mountain town of Ayacucho
>
> Sounds remarkably like a sneeze to me...great for an exile's obituary.
> Hell of a place in a place to expire and be thus immortalized.
> Hamlet might have been in awe. I wonder if a Dane could even say that.
> I find grokking (a la Thora) Swedish easier than Danish by far.
>
> > during his first coprolite field research trip.
> > His journal, collected by Dr. Bryant, notes that he
> > was running out of nitroglycerin tablets and experiencing chest
> pains. > "I must leave soon," he wrote, and **underlined**, a week
> before his
> > death.
>
> This simply underscores the former above statement I made.
> If you are running out of nitroglycerin tablets [Had these as a
> medical guinea pig for an FMS treatment.] you don't have the headaches
> they cause, and unless something else is more overpowering you should
> be more clear headed. If he'd had any sense he would have kicked the
> bucket a week earlier on the way DOWN the mountains to get them.
>
> Now, curiously enough the Thames Mudlarks who compete for the best
> sewers to dig into for artefacts so deep they are nearly up to their
> necks, and reeking to high heaven, cite the apparent fact that their
> predecessors cleaning those very drains were notorious for being
> long liv ed and unusually healthy in Victorian London, a place world
> notorious for it's filth. This is related in one of the Greenhill
> Publishing books on artefacts we medievalists frequently buy
> from England.
> There is a reason Thomas Crapper is forever immortalized and revered
> there - even if he might have borrowed the design. Purely saintly.
> [That and whoever found London heating possible with something
> other than coal - old what's-'is-name? Yeah - That's the one.]
>
> The Thames Mudlarks would probably have a fit to compete for cleaning
> out the Cloaca Maxima in Rome, were it not for the fact that it's been
> in continuous use for 2000 years or more. I wonder who they date?
> What is outstandingly funny is the opening into the Tiber is a giant
> mouth in a face. I guess they loved their politicians as well.
> I wonder who it was supposed to be. Surely it was an effigy of
> some one in Republican Rome.
>
> > Since Dr. Callen's death, coprolites have been found to be taxonomic
> > treasure troves, preserving pollen, parasites, algae, viruses,
> > proteins, steroids, seed grains and bones.
>
> Okay, I see viruses made it. When I took a year and a half of
> Life Sciences in early college as a wildlife science major at first, we
> were told viruses don't die as they really aren't alive but only
> partial strands of DNA called RNA and have a shell they persist in
> waiting to come into contact with a cell to cannibalize and multiply.
>
> Marmots in Mongolia, such chewy delicacies, have a history of carrying
> the bubonic/pneumonic plague, which is incurable remotely on the
> steppes, forbidden in the cities, and kills Mongolians every year.
> Yet they love it. This is likely where the 1347-51 plague originated
> that killed per haps a third of England and a lot of the rest of Europe.
>
> Similarly the Archaeologists of London KNOW there are plague pits
> out there. And unlike the remote Mongolians in the Steppes [who do
> smuggle the marmots into Ulaan Baatar regardless of law and common
> sense] they live in one of the world's most populated cities -
> gradually sinking under the weight of them and a little bit of
> global warming of the polar regions. Well, you build on a swamp
> and heat with sea coal for centuries.
>
> Does this mean that certain British Archaeologists and nutbar
> Mongolians come from the same strain? :) Perhaps one should
> inspect their young soon after birth for the tell-tail blue
> spot above the tail bone (as some Hungarians and Swiss still
> have, the remains of Attila's loving little bunch). Of course
> marmots (groundhogs) keep digging all the time too.
>
> One o f my old issues of London Archaeologist [or Current Archaeology]
> has one picture of them in a 5x5x20 foot deep wood-lined cesspit,
> assuring us the smell is the same, playing happily as if in a sandbox.
> Granted they find neat stuff, but... really. :O
> And they have some 18,000 excavated earlier Londoners in storeroom
> boxes of the Museum of London and can't keep up with the demand
> hardly for yet more rescue excavations. 20 miles of storage shelves?
> Somehow I think even Hieronymous Bosch would have found it alarming.
> The doomsday horn hasn't blown yet even.
>
> By comparison I should take a nearly side by side Viking barrel well/
> barrel cesspit any day to excavate. At least you're not lying in it. :)
> Or not so much anyway.
>
> Now a bone I can make some things both pretty and useful from.
> But nobody is gonna envy me for playing about with a pong. :)
> Not over he re anyway.
>
> If I want to play with a coprolite I think it will be a dinosaur
> coprolite that is sufficiently stoned. Surely some dinosaurs dined
> on hemp. Alice B. Toklas brownies anyone?
>
> Mayhap "them English" amongst us will find the truth humorous this
> time. [Witness, with Harrison Ford, for those who missed the reference.]
>
> Humor. Strictly Humor.
>
> Magnus, OL, Great Barony of Windmasters' Hill, Great Dark Horde, Manx,
> Regia, and a Curmudgeon - other titles are superfluous.
>
> > VÖRÖSHAJÚ SOFFYA
> > Argent, a patriarchal cross between three crescent gules on a chief
sable
> > three fleur-de-lys Or
> > Haus Gebrochen
> > Order of St. Roche
> > Incipient Canton of Sudentur
> > Barony of Stierbach
> > Kingdom of Atlantia
> > http://community.webshots.com/user/atasetofcreole
>
>
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