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I guess paradoxically everyone wants to die 'in good health' but would prefer that it happens in their 80s or 90s rather than their 40s or 50s. Quality of life is as you write, the important factor but, it doesn't follow that those who die younger have a better quality of life. My ancestors who...

To avoid repetition, see my post above, my comments on zoonoses and on positive selection. Antibiotics weren't even discovered until the 20th century and as I have pointed out, we have no idea what the infant mortality rates were even during the first millenium AD. Neither of the factors you...

I agree, this element is uncontroversial and I stated as much on the first page of this thread: "It is also true that the onset of the Neolithic was associated with negative health trends, exhibited e.g., in skeletal pathologies .." I reiterated it in my reply to you, on page 3 of this thread...

That would infer that we know what the infant mortality rate was during the mesolithic or indeed the fertility rate. We don't even know what those figures are for the 1st millenium AD in the UK. Infant remains are rare in prehistory because they don't survive well in the soil. The only thing...

Fair question as both are related to lifespan. Strictly, I'd use longevity when referring to populations in historic periods, such as the average lifespan of people in the periods below. Note the drop at the start of the neolithic which is what spiker refers to. Taken from The Neolithic...

To the contrary, I partially agreed with your point which I quoted: I only partially agreed with it because most studies compare the health of the Kalahari Dobe !Kung with early neolithic but comparisons fail to account for selective evolutionary advantages since the onset of farming and, as...

Well currently 18.8 million have diagnosed diabetes in the USA and 7 million are estimated to have undiagnosed diabetes in the USA. That equates to 25.8 million or 8.3% of the population. If the global pattern were to reflect the USA figures, you'd end up with just over 520 million, considerably...

The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic populations in Europe are hunter gatherer populations, the Neolithic is the onset of farming, the most fundamental change in food source in human history. But, the graph shows that fluctuations in populations occur all the time. T2 diabetes plays little or no part...

OK you have a little wriggle room because of your inclusion of the word 'threatened'. Same thing though, what studies predict a rise to above 30% of T2. On what do you base your billions threatened? Is there any actual data behind it or is it just prejudice?

Hunter gather populations are not immune from population crashes. The mesolithic in europe is characterised by a marked decline in populations, more marked than those at the end of the palaeolithic. Population longevity now is double that of the mesolithic. More people living longer looks very...

We don't have billions. That figure is just a knee jerk reaction. The population of the planet is just over 6 billion and for 'billions' to have T2, ie at least 2 billion, would mean that over 30% of the world population had it. This is not the case at all. T2 rates have been increasing in...

Some doctors are self obsessed and will not be swayed from their own uninformed opinions. He may have been one of those doctors telling his patients to "eat plenty of carbs" and that early morning readings of 7.0 indicated "good control", despite the fact that it has been known since the 1980s...

If that were true, we wouldn't have billions of people with the longevity that we see. The "affluent hunter-gatherer" paradigm is only partially sustainable. Humans were well-adapted to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a very long time. Species that aren't well-adapted tend to die out. It is...

You should try chickpeas and lentils !

Eat foods which are not quick, convenient or fashionable. Tinned fish is cheap and you used to be able to get large cans of pilchards for about 50p until TV chefs started to use them. They're about £1 now. Nonetheless, you can make excellent fishcakes with them and you'll have enough for two...

He means he does and he is not alone but, many disagree. My GP told me that I did not get enough test strips and doubled my prescription. My DN said I didn't need to test at all. Every year there are papers published such as: A1C Versus Glucose Testing: A Comparison He may not want you to...

If nuts, berries and salmon is good enough for him, it's good enough for me :-)

Well I can see that the systems in the USA and the UK are different but the attitudes are exactly the same ! Point for point, I had the same experiences.

What's all this West Yorkshire? If there's an East Riding, there must be West and North Ridings too: There are still village signs that proudly display Yorks W R

Your right, he only gives me 1 per day, baby asprin of course.