Andy Hall Childbirth is tricky, and many didn't make it. Poverty meant poor food, and sanitation (lack of) meant water borne diseases were very likely.
10 Reasons to go veggie 862I'm not suggesting a veggie diet is harmful. Read the links. So's some of your spelling, if we want to get...
Now infantile diahoerrhea is still the No 1 person in Africa..even as far back as my youth, when antibiotics were actually available, every mother feared polio, meningitis, scarlet fever, mumps, croup, tetanus, chicken pox and even smallpox, although largely in this country typhoid, typhus, TB smallpox and cholera were on the way to being eliminated.
These are all potential persons. My grandparents era - Edwardian era - was the first in which you expected MOST of your children to become adults. Prior to that it was not unusual for a Victorian women to be essentially pregnant or suckling from 16 to 45 years of age, and produce upwards of 10 children, if she didn't die in childbirth, of which maybe 5 would survive.
Diet? nothing to do with it. Untreatable bane diseases compounded by malnutrition., It wasn't that the food was wrong, merely very insufficient in its quanbreasty.
Hygiene was excruciatingly bad. Water from communal wells ponds or rivers often polluted with sewage..to which the only antidote was to mix it with enough alchohol to render any thirsty person relatively half peeed most of the time. Or boil it..if you had the time and fuel. Untreated cuts could easily result in rest from blood contagioning. Use of horse transport resulted in a mbuttive rest toll of road accidents. We are only going back 100 years to that sort of situation. In short only the very very few could afford to be selective about what they ate, and only malnutrition was the person - not obesity, not a diet of red meat or carrots.
10 Reasons to go veggie 860On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:42:41 +0100, John Cartmell Mostly its what was available. In those days they didn't have the luxury of going round Sainsbury's and choosing. Inuit's eat mainly meat because...
And if all else failed you went to church and prayed very hard indeed.
10 Reasons to go veggie 861Bonobos haven't died out - suggesting that a veggie diet ... So how many chimpanzees is that between? Snip It was...
It TOOK incredible physical efforts to do ANYTHING at ALL. You probably had to catch and kill your won meat and butcher it, grow and tend your crops, by hand..if you wanted to get somewhere, likely as not you walked. Probably pushing a herd of cattle sheep or geese ahead of you to the nearest town to sell.
10 Reasons to go veggie 863Adrian And? if we spent our days eating oysters and crabs cooked over beach fires, (and there ain't much in the way of vegetables on most beaches mate) we still weren't vegetarians by any stretch...
The hope was that by the time you were 50 or so, your sons and daughters would be grateful enough to look after you, and then you might live out a ripe old age. Trading your experience for their strength and mobility.
