Fact-o-rama

I just learned an interesting little piece of potentially meaningful trivia yesterday while perusing the pages of "Foods that fight cancer" -put out by the University of Toronto Cancer research laboratory, so no hippy dippy shit- Anyway, here it is:

Thanks to that enigmatic extra chromosome, people with Down syndrome, produce very high levels of vasopressin, which inhibits angiogenesis - the process by which tumours, like viral houseguests, commendere your bodies own resources to make blood vessels to feed themselves. All tumours depend on angiogenesis, without which they cannot metatasize, so rates of cancer in the Down community are vitually zero.

According to current statistics, almost 50% of the WASP land will contract cancer during his/her lifetime, and over 60% of those cases will be fatal. So look upon the face of the future, that happy happy face, and rejoice, for the meek just might inherit the earth after all.