Ancient Mummies Show Signs of Heart Disease

Discovery News ^ | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Marilynn Marchione

[SunkenCiv]

[no excerpt, the miserable curs at AP, who digitized Sarah's entire book and published large chunks of it, claiming "fair use", don't like to be hoist on their own petard, whatever. The gist of the original AP story is, the Jews start all wars.]

[SunkenCiv]

Sidebar of the other one.

[SunkenCiv]

Heart Disease Found in Egyptian Mummies (Pre-McDonalds)

· 11/17/2009 10:51:58 PM PST · · Posted by bogusname · · 7 replies · · 297+ views · · Science Daily · · Nov. 17, 2009 · · ScienceDaily ·

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, too. Study results are appearing in the Nov. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and are being presented Nov. 17 at the Scientific Session of the American Heart Association at Orlando, Fla. "Atherosclerosis is ubiquitous among modern day humans and, despite differences in ancient and modern lifestyles, we found that it was rather common in ancient Egyptians of high socioeconomic status...

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic · subscribe ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
·Dogpile · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[RegulatorCountry]

Heart disease and dental caries often go hand in hand. Chronic inflammation in response to chronic bacterial infecton.

[Ancient Drive]

wth? it said “I can’t Believe It’s not Butter!”

[sig226]

Okay, I want to make sure I’ve got this right. They conducted a study to find out if people who died might have had heart disease.

Someone paid for this.

Is that about the sum of it, then?

[caveat emptor]

A lithograph of arteriosclerotic arteries of ancient Egyption mummies was included in an article by M.A. Ruffer published in 1910 in the Journal of Pathology and Pacteriology. Cambridge XV: 453-462, just shy of 100 years ago.

[JoeProBono]

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I was puzzled as to why this emerged now, but then, the writer of the news article probably didn’t check first. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Sure, if you want to get all LOGICAL about it, geez.

[bert]

.....”Atherosclerosis is ubiquitous among modern day humans and, despite differences in ancient and modern lifestyles, we found that it was rather common in ancient Egyptians of high socioeconomic status......

There you have it. The unequivocal reason that Jews and Moslems don’t eat pork.

Bacon and lard cause heart attacks.

QED

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[SunkenCiv]

:’) The real reason is, pork and human flesh are basically indistinguishable to the palate. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Spread the word. ;’)