The USPS plans to deliver more junk mail to increase revenue. People tend to think of the government as picking up trash, but the post office delivers it. It's socialist heaven, a modern version of digging ditches and filling them back in. One socialist delivers trash. Another socialist carries it away.
It seems your DNA does not determine everything about you and your offspring. Children who experienced times of gluttony produced children and grandchildren who died young.
"For instance, Bygren's research showed that in Overkalix, boys who enjoyed those rare overabundant winters — kids who went from normal eating to gluttony in a single season — produced sons and grandsons who lived shorter lives. Far shorter: in the first paper Bygren wrote about Norrbotten, which was published in 2001 in the Dutch journal Acta Biotheoretica, he showed that the grandsons of Overkalix boys who had overeaten died an average of six years earlier than the grandsons of those who had endured a poor harvest. Once Bygren and his team controlled for certain socioeconomic variations, the difference in longevity jumped to an astonishing 32 years."Wow. Parents can also pass along insulin insensitivity from gluttony even though the children never experience the gluttony. This might be the same effect.
Fun with junk mail.
ReplyDeleteFor every piece of junk mail you receive that has a postage paid return envelope. Stuff that envelope with your junk mail and send it back.