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Thursday, October 31, 20021. Malnourishment 2. Unsafe sex 3. High blood pressure 4. Smoking 5. Alcohol 6. Bad water and poor sanitation 7. Iron deficiency 8. Smoke inhalation from indoor fires 9. High cholesterol 10. Obesity I wonder how they teased some of those out of the ultimate cause of death? Malnutrition and bad sanitation, I can see. If someone dies of intestinal parasites it's probably from poor sanitation, and if someone dies of Beri-Beri it's probably poor nutrition. But indoor fires, high cholesterol and obesity? Do people suffocate in large numbers from their indoor fires, or do they develop asthma and emphysema at higher rates? Coroners don't look over a dead body and say, "Hmmm. Two hundered and twenty pounds. Cause of death - too fat.". Presumably the cholesterol and obesity deaths were due to heart disease, a disease which has many causes, all of which usually tend to occur at the same time. posted by Sydney on 10/31/2002 07:07:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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