Gates Foundation makes poop a priority, puts toilet innovation front and center

Apparently it is too late for a grant for another one of my ideas!

Well it's all I've got on short notice.

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Better corn.
Well, I guess it is related just a bit. I know people often say they have corn in their poop.
 
Donnay, do you have any references based on science, rather than anecdote? I can find no actual reference to the AMA report referenced.
 
Donnay, do you have any references based on science, rather than anecdote? I can find no actual reference to the AMA report referenced.


You need to be more specific--I do not have the slightest idea what you are asking?
 
"RETURN TO SHANGRI-LA I once took a trip to the hunza Valley in Pakistan. The hunza farmers terraced surrounding mountainsides to prevent soil erosion. As Mark discussed, mineral-rich glacial waters feed this soil. As a result, the Hunzas grow beautiful fruits, vegetables, and millet. Throughout my visit there, I could hardly believe the quality of health that I encountered. For example, I met a 140-year-old man whose eyes were clear, whose skin was smooth, and who still had every tooth in his head. I am convinced that diet played a part."
- Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson, Empty Harvest (Get the book.)


"Remember, the Hunzas, the healthiest people in the world, stay young, virile, and vital and live in perfect health (arthritis is unknown in hunza) past 100 years of age?and they eat meat not more than once a month. Their diet is a high natural carbohydrate-low animal protein diet as advocated in this book. Health Destroyers What not to eat is, perhaps, even more important that what to eat when planning a program of vital nutrition. First and foremost, white sugar and all foods made with it should be totally excluded."
- Paavo Airola There is a Cure for Arthritis (Get the book.)


"In March 1961, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported on evidence that men in hunza lived to be 120 and even 140 years old. hunza men and women over 100 exhibited robust energy, in striking contrast to the epidemic of fatigue in our society. These people lived simply and without doctors or hospitals, without nursing homes. In America today we spend $1.5 trillion a year on health care and tens of billions of dollars studying disease. What is it buying us? Certainly not a long, disease-free life. Here's an idea: Study health instead of disease!"
- Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"The Remarkable Hunzas In a remote valley of the Himalayas, in what is now northeastern Pakistan, live the people of hunza, who were renowned for their near-perfect health, robust energy and extraordinary longevity. Though they lived under what we would consider primitive conditions, they regularly lived into their hundreds, and often lived to be 120 to 140 years old."

All of those cite the same stories from 1960's including the Journal of the American Medical Association (link): http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=330542

The reported lifespans were later disproved.

http://www.rtbot.net/hunza_people
Healthy living advocate J.I. Rodale wrote a book called The Healthy Hunzas' in 1955 that asserted that the Hunzas, noted for their longevity and many centenarians, were long-lived because of their consumption of healthy organic foods such as dried apricots and almonds, as well as them getting plenty of fresh air and exercise. He often mentioned them in his Prevention magazine as exemplary of the benefits of leading a healthy live style.

John Clark stayed among the Hunza people for 20 months and reported in his book, "Hunza - Lost Kingdom of the Himalayas" that Hunza do not measure their age solely by calendar (metaphorically speaking, as he also said there were no calendars), but also by personal estimation of wisdom, leading to notions of typical lifespans of 120 or greater. He also reported at one stage having as many as forty patients, and that he was very successful in treating malaria and staphylococcus with medical drugs, but had trouble with dysentery.
 
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