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RIP Victoria Wood
RIP Victoria Wood
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kenny mann • April 20, 2016 7:38 PM BST
scandanavian_haven scandanavian_haven 20 Apr 16 18:39 Joined: 27 May 11 | Topic/replies: 3,450 | Blogger: scandanavian_haven's blog 62 is a decent innings WTF!  ...come in your time is up kenny |
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Only last week I watched all the Acorn Antiques on youtube. Very sad, always remember her joke(I take it it was her joke, she certainly told it in standup) about going on holiday and that she knew the plane was old because she had to sit next to the rear to the rear gunner, always liked that one . As has been said 62 is no age.
Life expectancy figures are skewed by the high infant mortality rate: But the inclusion of infant mortality rates in calculating life expectancy creates the mistaken impression that earlier generations died at a young age; Americans were not dying en masse at the age of 46 in 1907. The fact is that the maximum human lifespan — a concept often confused with "life expectancy" — has remained more or less the same for thousands of years. The idea that our ancestors routinely died young (say, at age 40) has no basis in scientific fact. http://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-000-years.html |
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It depends how you look at it, 62 to young people is fairly old(ish) but the thing is for women it's just 3 years away from retirement age, when you're that close to the end of your working life, it's not surprising that, especially in this day and age, things can take their toll by then. Having said that I'm convinced if refined sugar was completely banned from all foods today that everyone will be living to a ripe old age in a few years, diabetes and cancers are partly a result in the consumption of excess refined sugars, all cells need glucose for energy, not an excess amount of sucrose.
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Methuselah reached 300 not many reach that nowadays....not any actually.
I think our lives are considerably safer now than in the past, we have cured a lot of diseases that used to kill us, we do not have famines, well not in Europe..Africa maybe, and at the moment we are not living in a time of War. Which explains the average increased life expectancy in this report? One problem we have is that our lives are much more sedentary than they used to be. So we are probably not getting enough exercise to keep us fit. Human Beings like all animals prefer tasty food, things like sugar and fat make it tasty, and it is more affordable than in the past. People blame food manufacturers, but it is fact people buy food because it is tasty not because it tastes like crud. They give us the food we want because that is good business. But this often means people become addicted to it, we forget our balanced diet. So I assume this has caused an increase in cancer. But since we have cured such a lot of diseases, the truth may be that if we had cured these diseases in the past people may well have died of cancer at the same rate they are now?????????????????? Tricky? |
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Methuselah reached 300 not many reach that nowadays....not any actually.
Kenny Mann can't be far off Ebul. |
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But this often means people become addicted to it, we forget our balanced diet. So I assume this has caused an increase in cancer.
Sugar, you mean? It'd be a shock if it weren't down to glucose in some specific way as that is what the cancer cell uses to grow. |
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Yes Flower.
It is easy to live on take aways, there are cheap sweets, chocky bars etc. One reason we may not admit. Is if people don't smoke, and we don't like people to drink alcohol I am afraid they are going to turn to the sweet stuff |
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maybe there is already a cure, but only for the selected few
name me one statesman that has recently died of cancer...... only seems to be celebs....even president carter's cancer is in regression |
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A plot?
If anyone ever discovers how to stop aging that will definitely be kept secret. |
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Have you seen how many cookery programs there are on now, ok they cook healthy food, but this must be encouraging people to eat more?
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I know ,hence Jo Brand lives on.There's no justice.
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akabula
20 Apr 16 23:33 Joined: 13 Mar 08 | Topic/replies: 18,643 | Blogger: akabula's blog Methuselah reached 300 not many reach that nowadays....not any actually. Kenny Mann can't be far off Ebul. But not as close as you if my calculations are correct.  |
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How would you react if a doctor told you that you would be dead within a year. Happens every day. But what would you do if someone said you were never going to die.
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I haven't seen victoria wood on tv for a long long time, but I do have fond memories of her. I also like the fact that she wasn't a 'celebrity' ie not always in the papers waffling on.
She was down to earth, funny and spoke to women like male comedians could not. It saddens me that she has died so young. RIP Victoria |
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I loved dinner ladies
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She was brilliant, extremely funny. RIP.
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She may have written something that I unknowingly smiled at but I can't ever recall doing so at her own performances which I didn't find at all funny.
I knew who she was though and certainly didn't deserve to die that relatively young.  |
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RIP
I'd love to think up a witty tribute but I can't do it, can't do it. |
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Life expectancy today is almost exactly the same as 200 years ago.
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Life exp. may now start to fall, in part due to modern medicine, as people with poor genes survive and reproduce. There is a very large genetic problem with todays population throughout the world, increasing.
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Life expectancy today is nearly double what it was 200 years ago.
62 years is young nowadays. RIP Rate reply: ------------------ More knowledge about things now - but cancer is getting a bigger grip every decade - more folk getting cancer than ever before and rising . Crap air quality ,poor diet and lack of sunshine - medical intervention is keeping folk alive in northern Europe |