Bey Deckard’s Reviews > The Body: A Guide for Occupants > Status Update
Bey Deckard
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"In Italy, the number of women who die in childbirth is 3.9 per 100,000. Sweden is 4.6, Australia 5.1, Ireland 5.7, Canada 6.6. Britain comes in only twenty-third on the list with 8.2 deaths per 100,000 live births, putting it below Hungary, Poland, and Albania. [...] Among developed nations, the US is in a league of its own with a maternal death rate of 16.7 per 100,000, putting it thirty-ninth among nations."
— Jan 07, 2024 08:05AM
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Bey Deckard
is on page 372 of 450
Of antioxidants:
"It's a massive racket [...] The reason the notion of oxidation and ageing hangs around is because it is perpetuated by people making money out of it.
"Some studies have even suggested that antioxidant supplements can be harmful. [...] ...antioxidant supplementation did not lower the incidence of many age-associated diseases but, in some cases, increased the risk of death."
— Jan 14, 2024 08:54AM
"It's a massive racket [...] The reason the notion of oxidation and ageing hangs around is because it is perpetuated by people making money out of it.
"Some studies have even suggested that antioxidant supplements can be harmful. [...] ...antioxidant supplementation did not lower the incidence of many age-associated diseases but, in some cases, increased the risk of death."
Bey Deckard
is on page 369 of 450
"Our extraordinary improvements in life span have come at a price. [...] 'For every year of added life that has been achieved since 1990, only 10 months is healthy.' "
Eesh.
— Jan 14, 2024 08:50AM
Eesh.
Bey Deckard
is on page 359 of 450
"America is near the bottom for virtually every measure of medical well-being—for chronic disease, depression, drug abuse, homicide, teenage pregnancies, HIV prevalence. Even sufferers of cystic fibrosis live ten years longer in Canada than in the United States.
— Jan 14, 2024 08:48AM
Bey Deckard
is on page 334 of 450
This book was published in 2019. In the section on disease:
" 'The fact is,' he says, 'we are really no better prepared for a bad outbreak today than we were when Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people [...] The reason we haven't had another experience like that isn't because we have been especially vigilant. It's because we have been lucky.' "
Later that year, COVID was first detected.
— Jan 07, 2024 08:09AM
" 'The fact is,' he says, 'we are really no better prepared for a bad outbreak today than we were when Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people [...] The reason we haven't had another experience like that isn't because we have been especially vigilant. It's because we have been lucky.' "
Later that year, COVID was first detected.
Bey Deckard
is on page 261 of 450
"One curious fact is that animals that are hibernating also have periods of sleep. It comes as a surprise to most of us, but hibernation and sleep are not the same thing at all. [...] a hibernating animal needs to get a few hours of conventional sleep each day within the larger unconsciousness. "
Also:
Bears don't technically hibernate. "Their winter slumbers are more accurately called a state of torpor."
— Jan 07, 2024 07:59AM
Also:
Bears don't technically hibernate. "Their winter slumbers are more accurately called a state of torpor."
Bey Deckard
is on page 246 of 450
Huh:
"There's a really easy way to do food shopping in supermarkets," he says. "Just stick to the outside aisles. The aisles in between are almost entirely filled with processed foods. If you stick to the outside, you will automatically have a healthier diet."
— Jan 07, 2024 07:54AM
"There's a really easy way to do food shopping in supermarkets," he says. "Just stick to the outside aisles. The aisles in between are almost entirely filled with processed foods. If you stick to the outside, you will automatically have a healthier diet."
Bey Deckard
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“Almost three-quarters of the forty million antibiotic prescriptions written each year in the United States are for conditions that cannot be cured with antibiotics.” —On rapidly growing antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
— May 31, 2023 02:40PM
Bey Deckard
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“…the full cost of building a new human being, using the obliging Benedict Cumberbatch as a template would be a very precise $151,578.46 [USD]. Labor and sales tax would, of course, boost costs further. You would probably be lucky to get a take-home Benedict Cumberbatch for much under $300,000…” 🤣
— May 31, 2023 12:45PM
