" 'We were struck by the similar appearance of vascular calcification in the mummies and our present-day patients,' said another researcher, Dr. Michael Miyamoto of the University of California at San Diego. 'Perhaps the development of atherosclerosis is a part of being human.' "
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14 years ago
wow....
ReplyDeletebut the question is,, how frequent was heart attack for mummies.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.
ReplyDeleteThey put a mummy through a CAT Scan?!?!
Am I the only one that finds this a bit disturbing?
They have been doing things like this for a long time. They even have portable MRI machines they can bring to museums. However back to the main point, I do find this information quite interesting. I think that factors of health go much deeper than just what people ate and drank. I believe that it has to do a lot with genetics, lifestyle and mental attitude. While yes if you do eat lots of unhealthy food it will increase your chances of developing dangerous diseases, I feel that if they dove deep into these mysterious mummies they would find other reasons for while they had heart attacks.
ReplyDeleteYou know your society has problems when the hearts of your people are similar to the hearts of long dead corpses.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. Another consideration is that only the upper class was mummified. And if the being in question was upper class, then he likely got the best of food, which would include (in ancient egypt) lots of high-fat foods (like red meat). Possibly even then diet WAS a factor...
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