Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

In article 
<wildbilly-327BD2.13083228042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <fv48vm0r8h@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Asthma,
> > > psoriasis,
> > > allergies etc, because they were incredibly rare.  Now they seem to 
> > > be
> > > almost the norm rather than the exception.  Something has sure
> > > changed since
> > > I was a kid.
> > 
> > The question is "were the diseases rare or were they commonplace and 
> > the diagnosis of them rare"?
> 
> Fair question. I hope someone can answer it. Another fair question is 
> does the out break of some of these diseases have any thing to do with 
> the "Body Burden"? 
> http://www.ewg.org/featured/15

> 
> All those unnatural chemicals that our environment seems to  be awash in

> these days. (DDT in Antarctica? When did they have trouble with insects?

> We live in a closed biosphere. What goes up in one place in the world, 
> comes down in another.) Is it just a coincidence that type II diabetes 
> began to spread after the introduction of high-fructose-corn syrup?
> It seems reasonable to question what appears a correlation between the 
> introduction of a new farming paradigm and food production and the 
> sudden concurent onset of health problems.

 <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/summary.html>

Contains 

 Historical Summaries of Notifiable Diseases in the United States 
1975--2006

Not an easy read :))

Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA