Why are babies born young? This sounds like an odd question. People would say "of course babies are born young". However, this goes to the core of the question of human (or animal) development. Why is it that as time passes people develop initially through puberty and then for women through menopause and more generally getting diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer, but most of the time babies start showing no signs of this. Lots of research into this has happened over the years and now I think it is clear why this is. It raises some interesting questions. Biological youth is about how well a cell functions. Cells that are old in a biological sense don't work that well. One of the ways in which cells stop working is they fail to produce the full range of proteins. Generally the proteins that are produced from longer genes stop being produced. The reason for this relates to how the Genes work (the Genome). Because the genome is not gettin
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"In 1995, when 540 newborns were removed for adoption, there were 17 murders in which the victim was less than a year old. A decade later, in 2005/6, 1,400 were taken, yet the murder total rose to 24"
Could we have these statistics as a proportion of the population of newborns please. The above statistics are meaningless. Please recalculate and forward to me by email if possible. Proportionality or some reasoned statistics is required. Raw data is pointless.
Dr Rita Pal
www.nhsexposed.com
www.nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com
[http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.more.ukpoptable.html]
we find
Births 1996: 722,000
Births 2005: 717,500
and the year-to-year variation swamps the difference (and newborn migration).
The murder numbers are too small to draw confident conclusions about trends except that there is no obvious improvement (assuming the years are not cherry-picked and definitions haven't changed). Yearly statistics over the whole decade would be better.