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GoldMember
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 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject: Koreans More Vulnerable to Brain Wasting Diseases |
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In the Korea Times:
What makes the OIE's ``recommendation'' written as just ``in principle'' all the more scary is Koreans' unusual vulnerability to this brain-wasting disease because of their genetic weakness and dietary pattern.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2008/04/202_22478.html
Eureka! Now at last I understand Korea! This explains everything. |
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mnhnhyouh
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: Koreans More Vulnerable to Brain Wasting Diseases |
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| KoreaTimes wrote: |
| What makes the OIE's ``recommendation'' written as just ``in principle'' all the more scary is Koreans' unusual vulnerability to this brain-wasting disease because of their genetic weakness and dietary pattern. |
Love to know where this came from....
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Hey! Korea Dementing!
Does 'dietary pattern' really mean excessive soju consumption?
A lifetime of that evil stuff would waste anyone's brain. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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I paid 6,000 won for a little bit of ground beef barely enough to make spaghetti sauce. If we must have a few more brain-wasted Koreans around to get those prices down, then so be it!
But seriously, were does this guy get this stuff? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreans do consume way too much alcohol. As far as alcohol, soju is horrible for you as it is. That, of course, is bad for your brain. There is too much salt in Korean food. I am not sure how excess salt would affect things. Koreans do eat a lot of barbecue. They may be thinner than Westerners, on average, but they are not healthier per se, as your average American male lives longer. Also, consider many Koreans smoke like a chimney, but the author has to explain what about the diet is bad as Korean food in many cases is very healthy. Koreans take pride in their food such as kimchee and believe their food is very healthy. I do think kimchee in small doses is good for you. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Funny, but aren't like 95% of the patients who've had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Brits? Besides, you have to put things in perspective: there are probably more Koreans dying in traffic accidents every 48h than there have been proven cases of that disease. |
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mnhnhyouh
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Funny, but aren't like 95% of the patients who've had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Brits? Besides, you have to put things in perspective: there are probably more Koreans dying in traffic accidents every 48h than there have been proven cases of that disease. |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is worldwide, and less of a problem. More disturbing, and the one you can catch from "mad cows" is vCJD. It seems there is more of this in the UK at present.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/index.htm
I love interesting questions, they prompt me to go off and find out what is happening.
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mnhnhyouh
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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and a little more for those interested...
| CDC wrote: |
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion. The nature of the transmissible agent is not well understood. Currently, the most accepted theory is that the agent is a modified form of a normal protein known as prion protein. For reasons that are not yet understood, the normal prion protein changes into a pathogenic (harmful) form that then damages the central nervous system of cattle.
Research indicates that the first probable infections of BSE in cows occurred during the 1970's with two cases of BSE being identified in 1986. BSE possibly originated as a result of feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal that contained scrapie-infected sheep products. Scrapie is a prion disease of sheep. There is strong evidence and general agreement that the outbreak was then amplified and spread throughout the United Kingdom cattle industry by feeding rendered, prion-infected, bovine meat-and-bone meal to young calves.
The BSE epidemic in the United Kingdom peaked in January 1993 at almost 1,000 new cases per week. Through the end of 2007, more than 184,500 cases of BSE had been confirmed in the United Kingdom alone in more than 35,000 herds.
There exists strong epidemiologic and laboratory evidence for a causal association between a new human prion disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) that was first reported from the United Kingdom in 1996 and the BSE outbreak in cattle. The interval between the most likely period for the initial extended exposure of the population to potentially BSE-contaminated food (1984-1986) and the onset of initial variant CJD cases (1994-1996) is consistent with known incubation periods for the human forms of prion disease. |
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/index.htm
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ryouga013
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:14 am Post subject: |
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This is going to sound pretty mean but I am trying to take a by the facts perspective on this...
wouldn't one reason for the risk of such diseases being so high be the fact that Korea was so dirt poor before and malnutrition ran wild for quite some time? (this at least explains the adjumma/ajjoshi)
As far as current problems, I believe the pollution around is a lot more disturbing than basic dietary patterns unless they are including the abuse of soju, something Koreans consider to be a "good thing." (everyone in Korea)
Soju... need I say more? (anyone who drinks it, especially past recommended limits of the Surgeon General (smelling it))
Many years of sleep deprivation also stunts the growth of the brain, especially in creativity but I am unaware of the physical problems associated with it such as neurological diseases. (will someone please think of the children~!) |
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jetrash
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Koreans More Vulnerable to Brain Wasting Diseases |
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so, a korean writer(no credit on site) is saying koreans are" genetically weak ."
this is most excellent and refeshing news
..instead of the usual sickening pride of"we koreans the best race stuff",now they pull the " we koreans a weak race, stuff"..just to protect their overpriced beef from american trade.
what a bunch of whining girls,do they have no shame?
korean men will all be wearing pink ties with glitter next, mark my words ,as a visual demonstration of their weakness and inability to eat american beef.
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Funny, but aren't like 95% of the patients who've had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Brits? Besides, you have to put things in perspective: there are probably more Koreans dying in traffic accidents every 48h than there have been proven cases of that disease. |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is worldwide, and less of a problem. More disturbing, and the one you can catch from "mad cows" is vCJD. It seems there is more of this in the UK at present.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/index.htm
I love interesting questions, they prompt me to go off and find out what is happening.
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I meant Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. For some reason, I thought they were the same. |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Koreans More Vulnerable to Brain Wasting Diseases |
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| jetrash wrote: |
so, a korean writer(no credit on site) is saying koreans are" genetically weak ."
this is most excellent and refeshing news
..instead of the usual sickening pride of"we koreans the best race stuff",now they pull the " we koreans a weak race, stuff"..just to protect their overpriced beef from american trade.
what a bunch of whining girls,do they have no shame?
korean men will all be wearing pink ties with glitter next, mark my words ,as a visual demonstration of their weakness and inability to eat american beef.
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So all the patients in the UK must be ethnically Korean, right?
You raise an interesting question. Given the number of North Americans who consume beef every day, and the mad-cow outbreaks, shouldn't there be more patients there who have vCJD? |
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jetrash
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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it was mainly a french led scam and scaremongering tactic to protect their farmers.
now the korean argricultural industry is doing it to the USA meat producers.
there were one or two cases a few years ago,but the link to contaminated beef was not proven .
one of the girls who had it ate a lot of hot dogs.
americans are still happily eating their own meat.
the one case in america,the guy only lived in the states a short time and is a saudi.
i was in uk at time (1986)and continued eating british beef.
on a more worrying note,koreans get enough diseases from eating kimchee as it IS proven that fermented food increases stomach cancer. |
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