However did the Victorians survive with all the pollution from heavy industry, coal mining, arsenic impregnated wallpaper, sewage in all the rivers etc. etc. We've eaten fish from supermarkets for over 40 years and think we're as healthy as other people. Do stop worrying about so many things, that way lies madness.
However did the Victorians survive with all the pollution from heavy industry, coal mining, arsenic impregnated wallpaper, sewage in all the rivers etc. etc. We've eaten fish from supermarkets for over 40 years and think we're as healthy as other people. Do stop worrying about so many things, that way lies madness.
However did the Victorians survive? The truth is, a lot of them didn’t
“During 1800’s the life expectancy in cities averaged between 25 and 30 years, but in rural areas like Colton it was higher at around 41 years. The influencing factors for better health were money, environment (air, water, sanitation) and diet…”.
Yes, of course I did know that @Dovefromabove but enough of them must have survived either we wouldn't be here. One of my Victorian ancestors was a coal miner all his life who died aged 88, we're a tough lot.
In Victorian times most people were almost starving, they didn't eat much of anything, not like the portions people have now.
My mum told me that the husband had to be fed back then because he was the one who went to work, her mother would buy a piece of smoked haddock for his dinner, boil it in a frying pan in water and the kids had a piece of dry bread dipped in that water. That wasn’t victorian times that was in the 30’s. They did die younger but not from rubbish junk food. My Nan died at 56 and she looked more like 76. I do wonder where all the cancers come from these days, one in two will be affected.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I do wonder where all the cancers come from these days, one in two will be affected.
Most of them come from living longer, all my close family so far have died from cancer. if they had died at 56 none of them would have had cancer. since they died at 75, 81 and 93.. it was cancer that finally got them. Here there is a saying "slæbesild" which translates as dragged herring. the pickled herring was wiped on everyone's rye bread to give flavour but only the father got to actually eat herring.
I’m not sure that’s so in the U.K. Skandi, I have lost friends in their 30’s, my daughter has lost two friends and my step daughter lost her friend at aged 30. OH’s nephew had a brain tumour aged 18. That’s just our family. I know of lots of young people, I think there are more children’s cancers than before although I don’t know anyone.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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There's worse than plastic in the trenches.
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20211221-study-of-french-pyrenees-site-finds-high-mountain-air-filled-with-microplastics
We've eaten fish from supermarkets for over 40 years and think we're as healthy as other people.
Do stop worrying about so many things, that way lies madness.
“During 1800’s the life expectancy in cities averaged between 25 and 30 years, but in rural areas like Colton it was higher at around 41 years. The influencing factors for better health were money, environment (air, water, sanitation) and diet…”.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
not like the portions people have now.
My mum told me that the husband had to be fed back then because he was the one who went to work, her mother would buy a piece of smoked haddock for his dinner, boil it in a frying pan in water and the kids had a piece of dry bread dipped in that water. That wasn’t victorian times that was in the 30’s.
They did die younger but not from rubbish junk food. My Nan died at 56 and she looked more like 76.
I do wonder where all the cancers come from these days, one in two will be affected.
Here there is a saying "slæbesild" which translates as dragged herring. the pickled herring was wiped on everyone's rye bread to give flavour but only the father got to actually eat herring.
I know of lots of young people, I think there are more children’s cancers than before although I don’t know anyone.
please think twice when you buy this salmon, the battle is still going on with M&S. They won’t comment.
https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/letter-to-supermarkets-21-nov-2019.pdf