Nutrition Transition for Better or Worse
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Our Western health and hygienic insights have drastically reduced infant mortality since the 19th century. In the Far East and Africa, not everyone has clean drinking water and their own sanitary facilities. Large differences, on the other hand, are found worldwide in cancer deaths, which are spectacularly lower in India, China and Japan. An increasing proportion of animal proteins and fats in the diet in the West is the cause of this.
Most of diseases in the temperate zones came in Western countries from diseases of our livestock (such as cattle, pigs, and chickens) with which our ancestors lived in close contact after those animal species had been domesticated. Diseases as plague and cholera can be controlled with antibiotics, the leukemia viruses ALV and BLV are much more difficult or even inadequate to treat.
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Nutrition Transition for Better or Worse - Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD
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BOOK8PH:Book Covers:Image-164.jpgPeter A.J. Holst worked as a general practitioner in Rijswijk-Den Haag from 1970 to 1984. In his early years as a general practitioner, Holst was also supervisor of a clinic for birth control in Delft (Dr. Rutgers Foundation) for several years. The Rutgers Foundation was successful in the seventies of the twentieth century with its counseling agencies for contraception, the Rutgershuizen. In 1969 and 1970 he held evening office hours at the Rutgershuis in Delft. When the St Hippolytus hospital on the Phoenixstraat in Delft moved to a new location, the former hospital was transformed into a business collection building and, under the direction of Holst, the incubator department on the top floor of this building was converted into a number of consultation and examination rooms of the new Rutgershuis in Delft. He has placed about 250 IUDs in all of the following practical years, including in his own general practice during evening consultation hours for contraception and cervical smears. He held back-guard consultation hours for the morning after pill. Real ‘Hagueneses’ then asked for the 'morning after save pill'.
In 1970 he established himself as a general practitioner in Rijswijk Steenvoorde bordering on The Hague Moerwijk-Morgenstond. Under the influence of the Nederlands Huisartsen Instituut and the Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap, his practice was set up from the beginning with a surveillance schedule. This means that age groups are always tested for the risks that occur in the age group. As additional operations during consultation contacts at least once the blood pressure was measured, for example also once from 50 years the eye pressure measured and noted, the stool examined for occult blood loss from 50 years, in risk groups also an electrocardiogram was made, etc. At the beginning of my general practice, I found a severe pneumonia in a young woman of 20 years old. Very special for this age. After treatment with an antibiotic she recovered. Because she had a cage with a parakeet in her bedroom, however, I wondered whether the presence of a cage bird in the house could possibly cause more serious illness. A 17 year old boy died of bone cancer in his leg during the first years of my practice. This young man and his father had constantly kept and bred at least 100 tropical songbirds in a basement. One can imagine the risk of repeated bird flu and the occurrence of blood and bone marrow episodes with slow-moving carcinogenic bone infection in such intensive contact. Because of the many consultation hours and home visits to my own patients and control patients, ten lung cancer patients came to my attention in a year. Of these, there were six birds keepers in the years before the diagnosis. After consulting with Professor F. de Waard of the RIVM, department of epidemiology, I have set up a ten-year practice survey and follow-up studies. The statistical link was demonstrated, which was later confirmed in studies in Berlin and Glasgow.
In 1987, this research led to his PhD at the University of Utrecht on the relationship he demonstrated between breeding and keeping birds indoors and lung cancer. He defended the hypothesis that lung cancer in bird keepers and bird breeders is the result of persistent infection of the deeper basal cells in the airways. His promoters were Prof. F. de Waard, epidemiologist of the RIVM, Professor P. Zwart, special veterinary faculty and D. Kromhout, nutritional epidemiologist. These basal cells, also called cancer stem cells, are still multipotent and do not die if the cell is infected with a bacterium like the Chlamydia that can only propagate in a living host cell. The practical studies and the dust measurements with TNO were subsidized by the Dutch Prevention Fund. After this he started working as director of Health, Safety and Environment services.
After his retirement in 2005, he started traveling a lot. Born in Zeeland, on land in the sea, the sea-hole and the wide world continued to attrack him. In the meantime he has crossed all the oceans several times after more than 20 cruises. The volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean are very impressive. All first life forms originated here and spread out via South-America to Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. From the primordial soup of the Pacific Ocean the fish, amphibians, birds, dinosaurs and mammals were created. Very special is that no great apes existed in both Americas. In North and South America there are no great apes, only howler monkeys and capuchin monkeys. The great apes and homo sapiens have arisen in central Africa. The oldest cultures are found in the Far East. From around 4,000 years ago, the 10,000 Polynesian islands in the Pacific Ocean were last occupied by humans from Taiwan and South-East China.
Only apes can touch their reproductive organs by hand. This evolution is both anatomically and functionally meaningful. Monkeys and great apes have a great hand skill. They can pick their nose. From an evolutionary point of view, it is far more important that they are the only living beings who can touch their sexual organs with their hands. For the more intelligent species of great apes, such as bonobos and chimpanzees, the liberation of the instinctive process of procreation came within reach. Only humans, thanks to the increased brain volume and complexity of the brain, are capable of birth control, both contraception and fertility studies and treatments. This process began in the middle of the twentieth century
The knowledge and control of the reproductive processes has also been used by humans in livestock farming. Artificial insemination in breeding animals was applied on a large scale. Since the fifties of the 20th century, intensive breeding in livestock farming has increased significantly. Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and chicken leukemia virus (ALV) have been detected in cows and poultry. The proportion of