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    From the page: "19. Human Meat Isn't Appetizing, But is It Healthy? You are what you eat. So it stands to reason that if you're a cannibal, and you eat a diseased, dead guy, youâ€re going to become a diseased, dead guy. But the cannibalistic Fore people of New Guinea found... more

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  • Rated by Sabin548 on Jul 20, 7:16pm

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    From the page: "9. What Does McDonald Have in Common with the CIA?" Witty and humorous.

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  • Rated by lovesmalibu on Feb 04 2008, 6:05am

    From the page: "19. Human Meat Isn't Appetizing, But is It Healthy? You are what you eat. So it stands to reason that if you're a cannibal, and you eat a diseased, dead guy, youâ€re going to become a diseased, dead guy. But the cannibalistic Fore people of New Guinea found that out the hard way. For most of the 20th century, the Fore were plagued with a disease called Kuru [wiki], also known as the laughing death. Kuru, a relative of mad cow disease, paralyzes its victims and cause dementia by turning the brain into something resembling Swiss cheese - literally creating holes in the brain. Fascinated by what he though was a genetic disorder, scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek [wiki] traveled to New Guinea in 1957 to study the Fore. While there, he discovered that women made up the vast majority of Kuru victims. He also noticed that women and children were the ones ceremonially eating the brains and intestines of dead relatives. Putting two and two together, Gajdusek deduced that the Fore were ingesting the prions, or misshapen proteins, that caused the disease. Gajdusek received a Nobel Prize for his work, and today, cannibalism and Kuru are all but wiped out in New Guinea." A reason for us all not to become cannibals.

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    "The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe." he-he

  • Rated by neatorama on Jul 24 2006, 12:37pm

    19. Human Meat Isn't Appetizing, But is It Healthy? You are what you eat. So it stands to reason that if you're a cannibal, and you eat a diseased, dead guy, you're going to become a diseased, dead guy. But the cannibalistic Fore people of New Guinea found that out the hard way. For most of the 20th century, the Fore were plagued with a disease called Kuru [wiki], also known as the laughing death. Kuru, a relative of mad cow disease, paralyzes its victims and cause dementia by turning the brain into something resembling Swiss cheese - literally creating holes in the brain. Fascinated by what he though was a genetic disorder, scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek [wiki] traveled to New Guinea in 1957 to study the Fore. While there, he discovered that women made up the vast majority of Kuru victims. He also noticed that women and children were the ones ceremonially eating the brains and intestines of dead relatives. Putting two and two together, Gajdusek deduced that the Fore were ingesting the prions, or misshapen proteins, that caused the disease. Gajdusek received a Nobel Prize for his work, and today, cannibalism and Kuru are all but wiped out in New Guinea.