[soc.religion.christian] Food Laws - a correct and apology

drew@anucsd.anu.edu.au (Drew Corrigan) (04/02/91)

In an earlier article I mentioned how the food laws in Leviticus 11 can
be shown to be applicable today in the light of modern medical research
regarding disease and illness linking consumption of forbidden animals
with sickness in humans.

In particular I cited pork as being connected with sclerosis of the 
liver. This was an error on my part and I must apologise for the
mistake. The illness I was thinking of is cirrhosis of the liver.

Interested readers can follow this up in "Relationship between Pork
consumption and cirrhosis", by Drs Amin A Nanji & Samuel W French,
published in the Lancet, 23 March 1985, p 681-683. The doctors are
liver specialists and certainly seem to have isolated consumption of
pork as significant in the development of cirrhosis.

Again my apologies for the error. I tend to remember categories of what
is permitted for food, than things which are not. :-)

Drew Corrigan  (drew@anucsd.anu.edu.au)