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Hmm, must not have been Egypt, since they tore out the internal organs and put them in jars. Lots of mummies around the world, peat bogs, salt flat burials, freeze dried in the Himalayan mountains. So plenty of areas to study.
Actually, it was mostly Daddies.......
Likely true, but consider also that anyone well-off enough to be mumified several millennia ago probably had lifestyles more similar to the average modern first-world individual than with their lower class contemporaries; IE, sedentary, pampered, and unlikely to miss a meal.
Climate change no doubt, forced them to have to eat food with high fat content.
Anthropologists have known about this for decades. It started during the neolithic agricultural transition (10K-6Kya). Once people started eating a grain based diet, all sorts of health problems appeared. People became smaller and infant mortality rose. The plus side was that people had many more children than hunter-gatherers.