From: dadoctah@spamcop.net   
      
   katherine.j.parks@gmail.com filted:   
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   >Transcript of a discussion at a friends house last night:   
   >Friend: Did you know that eating human flesh rots your teeth?   
   >Me:     Yeah, right.   
   >Friend: No, it's true!   
   >Me:     You're sure it's not a causative link - some people who eat   
   >        human flesh have rotten teeth, therefore eating human flesh   
   >        causes rotten teeth?   
   >Friend: No, well it sounds feasible. It stands to reason. Also, you=20   
   >        don't get any nutrition from eating human flesh.  It's just like=20   
   >        drinking blood - you're better off drinking milk.   
   >Me:     ?????   
   >Friend: I mean, carrots don't eat carrots, do they?   
   >Me:     Huh? Rocks don't eat rocks either.   
   >Some conclusions   
   >1.  My friends mind is a mess   
   >2.  He's obviously picked up this 'eating human flesh causes rotten   
   >teeth' UL from somewhere.  Quick searches of dejanews etc revealed   
   >nothing in this area. Can anyone point me in the direction of some info   
   >on this?   
   >3. Nutrition (or lack of) from drinking blood. True/False/Inconclusive?   
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   >Thanks   
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   >I read a short story about a doctor whose plane crashed on a deserted islan=   
   >d dying of hunger who ate his amputated foot and went insane continued to e=   
   >at himself and mentions him theorizing the flesh is the reason for his teet=   
   >h rotting...maybe he read the same story.   
      
   And then you have those people on "bath salts" chewing other people's faces   
   off...maybe a spurious connection between that behavior and the well-known link   
   between meth and bad teeth?...   
      
   When I was a kid, they always told me that if you drank blood you'd get   
   violently ill...didn't matter if it was animal blood, human blood, or even your   
   own; more than a couple of drops of blood in your stomach and you'd vomit for   
   days...then I got some kind of mysterious GI bleed and ended up in the hospital   
   with anemia...my stomach was probably *full* of blood judging from how black   
   and   
   well-digested it was when it came out, but I never had even the slightest   
   sensation of nausea, let alone throwing up....r   
      
      
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   Me?  Sarcastic?   
   Yeah, right.   
      
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