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    Default Heart disease present in ancient mummies



    Fatty arteries may not just be a curse of modern unhealthy lifestyles, say researchers who used scans to look at the heart health of mummies.

    A study in The Lancet of 137 mummies up to 4,000 years old found a third had signs of atherosclerosis.

    Most people associate the disease, which leads to heart attacks and strokes, with modern lifestyle factors such as smoking and obesity.

    But the findings may suggest a more basic human pre-disposition.

    Previous studies have uncovered atherosclerosis in a significant number of Egyptian mummies but it had been speculated that they would have come from a higher social class and may have had luxurious diets high in saturated fat.

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    To try and get a better picture of how prevalent the disease was in ancient populations, the researchers used CT scans to look at mummies from Egypt, Peru, southwest America, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

    They found that 47 or 34% showed signs of definite or probably atherosclerosis......

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21739193

    http://www.examiner.com/article/sign...ncient-mummies
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    Hi Baddbob, Wade Frazier is a much valued person here in Avalon, his life experience with the attempt to promote free Energy full-fledged and being groomed to be a scientists gave him an extensive look on science. He posted his comment about this research yesterday:


    Quote Originally posted by Wade Frazier: "Well, I was just about to shut down my computer and saw this article, and really have a hard time believing that researchers can be that blind about hardening of the arteries, calling it some normal aging process:

    http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-mummie...021333966.html

    It is “normal” for all humans that got away from their natural diet, which is mostly fruit. At least they acknowledge that wild chimpanzees don’t get hardening of the arteries. While books are banned that show how hardening of the arteries is about getting away from our natural diets:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#banned

    “research” like that tries to make the case that hardening of the arteries is a normal aging process. When I see crap like that, I can see Godzilla's sardonic grin in the background, like the Cheshire Cat, happy to see how stupid we are.

    One of the main upshots of FE is that everybody on Earth would quickly have access to live food, mainly fruit, and clean water, etc., and then all of our degenerative diseases could disappear almost overnight"
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    While I doubt this story's truthfulness, I don't believe that fruit is a mainstay of man's diet. Too much fruit is bad news for any of us. Perhaps he is using a different definition of fruit. I'll give him that (as if he needed my approval.... )
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    I think the diet of the Elite would have been much more unhealthy than the ordinary Egyptian, so its not surprising the mummy is showing these signs.
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    It feels like a "See it's probably not caused by fatty food's so dont worry about clogged arteries keep smoking/eating our great fatty foods/poisons!!!"

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    My understanding is that the Egyptians were among the first to cultivate wheat. There was no heart disease in the Inuit who thrived on a diet of blubber and meat until sugar and wheat were introduced...Dr. Weston A. Price made the same observations about indigenous populations the world over...

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    Default Re: Heart disease present in ancient mummies

    Limor- Do you know that in fact chimpanzees really enjoy eating meat? They will even kill it themselves if it is an easy kill. They are in fact omnivores, as are we.

    It is also true that the diet of ancient hunter communities seems to have been healthier than the diet of the early farmers who followed them. The hunters seem to have left behind healthier skeletons and teeth!
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