"Ray" > wrote in message news:<cfr1s3$9i4
> > Asked by a radio interviewer once what her ultimate meal would be,
> > Child said: "Red meat and a bottle of gin."

> Forget the diet for a moment.
> Could it have been connected with the bottle of gin?
>

It could certainly not been the red meat.
see:
Johnson, Mary Ann,
"The Georgia Centenarian Study: Nutritional Patterns of
Centenarians."
The International Journal of Aging & Human Development Vol. 34(1)
(1992) 57-76.

These two studies by the University of Georgia Medical School explain
that hundred-year-olds typically eat high animal fat diets. The first
U.S-only study was replicated world-wide because the doctors didn't
beleive the results the first time!

But the results do jive with the statistical increase in lifespan as a
result of modern inventions. Since the 1850s when the invention of
the railroad made red meat ( beef, pork, lamb)affordable to the
average man, lifespan has increased from the mid-forties to the
late-seventies. Medical and hygenic advances have added at the most 5
years of lifespan during this time according to statisticians. The
statistical further increase shown when refrigeration added chicken to
the mix in the early 20th century makes your refrigerator the second
most important invention for increasing lifespan and puts the medical
profession a distant statistical third.

Of course, according to Indian Medical publications, vegetarians have
a 10 times risk of heart attack in their 30s and a 313 times risk of
heart attack in their 20s even though they have fewer other risk
factors ( smoking, sedintary lifestyle,etc). Kind of hard to beat
those odds.

Ray Audette
Author"NeanderThin"
www.NeanderThin.com