Study: Even ancient mummies had clogged arteries

ap ^ | Mar 10, 8:57 PM EDT | MARIA CHENG

[BenLurkin]

Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever study of mummies searching for the condition.

Researchers say that suggests heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising.

CT scans of 137 mummies showed evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, in one third of those examined, including those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles. Atherosclerosis causes heart attacks and strokes. More than half of the mummies were from Egypt while the rest were from Peru, southwest America and the Aleutian islands in Alaska. The mummies were from about 3800 B.C. to 1900 A.D.

[FreedomStar3028]

Duh?

[jazusamo]

There's got to be a lesson in there for Moochelle and Mayor Bloomberg:)

[jmacusa]

Oi vey! clogged smgogged! If it ain’t one thing it’s another! What you eat, what you don’t eat, this is no good, this is, enough already! Plenty of people die from not eating anything. Anybody ever die from eating too much? Sheesh!.

[SamAdams76]

What is disheartening about this report is that all those people from 4,000 years ago are dead. Even the ones that took care of themselves by eating vegan, sipping green tea and strumming Joan Baez/Bob Dylan songs on their prehistoric string instruments.

We are beautiful - We are doomed.

[ReneeLynn]

Starling find, dying is bad for you.

[FamiliarFace]

I am soooo surprised....oh wait....no, I’m not.

[JPG]

That reminds me of the side by side comparison of a smokers/nonsmokers lungs. Both taken from dead people. Pass the cigs and the bacon.

[Tax-chick]

Professor Brier says tooth decay was a serious issue, which may have contributed to the fall of dynasties.

[BenLurkin]

Not just starling, but hugh!

[DeweyShootem]

Never Forget: Good Health is the slowest way to die!

[Cyman]

The only undisputed rule about your life expectancy is that it is almost solely dependent on how long your parents and grandparents lived.

[Cyman]

The only undisputed rule about your life expectancy is that it is almost solely dependent on how long your parents and grandparents lived.

[mazz44]

Ancient Egyptians were know as “Bread Eaters”. Funny, our bodies produces cholesterol as a by-product of carbohydrate ingestion. Maybe these people did not eat very well, after all. In addition, poor sanitation, creating high viral, fungal and bacterial loads could have caused the arterial plaque.

This study is not revealing the whole story, and seems to be part of a propaganda push towards new laws and new drug therapy.

[MCH]

...including those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles.

Based upon WHAT? This is a premise you could drive a truck through. Sounds like an Algore/Bloomjerk argument - that we'd all be healthier if we lived in caves like they did in the good old days before SUVs and modern medicine, with no carbon emitting electricity and no large sodas. Guess that's why the average lifespan of humans back then was so incredibly high . Sounds like more government funded leftist "science" driven by horribly flawed and unproven premises.

[virgil283]

Thanks Ben, this puts down the lie we've had pushed on us for 100 years that health only comes for eating only grain....@%$# you Dr. Kellog....Post....et all... HA

[tiki]

I had steak and crab, dripping with butter, corn with butter and broccoli with cheese sauce for dinner and I never once thought of my poor arteries.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Avoid heart bypass surgery using hydrogen peroxide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3BcmgXiI30

[SunkenCiv]

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Hey, this mummy over here isn't breathing!!! Thanks BenLurkin. 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.