21st Century Disease

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Back in the olden times, humans died of scarcity.

Scarcity of:

• Food (starvation)
• Medical Knowledge (infant mortality, germs, viruses, infections, etc)
• Cleanliness (germs & cooties)
• Technology (hunting dinner could quickly turn into being hunted for dinner)

Luckily for us, our ancestors were hard workers and developed strategies for solving most of these problems.

• Food (agriculture)
• Medical Knowledge (Gregory House M.D.)
• Cleanliness (washing your hands with soap)
• Technology (food production, medicine, transportation, etc)

Unfortunately for us, our hard working ancestors may have been just a little too smart for our own good.

In our desire to live longer & better, some of our “lifestyle improvements” have turned around and bit us squarely on the butt.

We have gotten so good at:

• Food (calories) production
• Labor saving devices (automobiles, microwaves, roombas)
• Entertainment
• Information delivery (computers, internet)
• and so on…

That we are now dying due to excess:

• High Central Obesity or Visceral Fat
• High Triglycerides
• Low HDL Cholesterol
• High Blood Pressure
• High Blood Sugar
• High levels of Inflammation
• Microalbuminuria
• Diabetes (Types 1, 2 and 3)
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Cancer

sounds fun, doesn’t it?

Scientists call this condition by a host of different names - Metabolic Syndrome, syndrome X, insulin resistance syndrome, Reaven’s syndrome, and CHAOS (Australia).

I prefer the name 21st Century Disease.

Despite the different names, the scientists all agree that this “syndrome”  is caused directly by the very lifestyle that our ancestors worked so hard to create.

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Ironic, ain’t it?

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Note - It’s obvious that there is a still lot of scarcity in the world. It just doesn’t happen to most of us. Without getting all preachy, there are lots of ways we can share some of our abundance with others who weren’t born into abundance. One of my favorites is Kiva.

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