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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Autoimmune Diseases
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taken from Eco-Update section of
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ACRES U.S.A.
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P.O. BOX 9547
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Kansas City, Missouri 64133
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$15.00 per year (12 issues)
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Excellent Eco-Agriculture paper
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The old expression, meaner than a junkyard dog, implies
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that chronically underfed animals are hardier souls than their
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pampered, well-fed relatives. It is a matter of scientific
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record that they have fewer illnesses, apprarently because
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their immune systems are thogher.
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But though researchers know the effects of diet
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restriction, they were in the dark as to why until this
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summer, when Robert A. Good of the University of South Florida
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in St. Petersburg and some co-researchers turned up a few
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interesting clues.
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Reporting in the June issue of PROCEEDINGS OF THE
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, they demonstrated that mice
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prone to autoimmune disease naturally manufacture two to seven
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times the normal amount of a type of white blood cell involved
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in the production of auto-antibodies, which attack the body's
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own substances.
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By consistently restricting the diets of the autoimmune-
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prone mice to 60% of their normal food intake, they were able
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to bring these potentially harmful B-cells down to an
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acceptable level. This seems to explain why chronically
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underfed animals are less vulnerable to immune diseases.
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The Fasting Worms
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Experimental tests conducted in the 1930's at the Zoology
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Department of the University of Chicago showed that worms,
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when well-fed, grew old, but by fasting them they were made
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young again.
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In one experiment worms were fed as much as they usually
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eat, except one worm, which was isolated and alternatively fed
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and fasted. The isolated worm was alive and energetic after
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Page 1
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19 generations of its relatives had lived out their normal
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lifespans.
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Professor C.M. Childs said:
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"When worms are deprived of food, they do not die of
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starvation in a few days. They live for months on
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their own tissues. At such time they become smaller
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and may be reduced to a fraction of their original
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size. Then when fed after such a fasting, they show
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all the physiological traits of young animals. But
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with continued feeding, they again go through the
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process of growth and aging (and die).
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One group of worms was well fed and every three or four
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months passed through the cycle of aging and
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reproducing. Another group was given just enough food
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to maintain the worms at a constant size but not enough
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to make them grow.
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These worms remained in good condition without becoming
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appreciably older as long as the experiment continued,
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which was three years."
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The life-span extension of these worms was the equivalent of
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keeping a man alive for 600 to 700 years.
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The big question, of course, is - do worms that don't die
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contribute much to the soil?
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This file listed on KeelyNet as AGE1.ASC.
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as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
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Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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