Discovered 2,200-year-old mummy obesity

They are old, important enough to be embalmed, but that is not where the image to emulate you. You are overweight and obese, lazy even further? It looks but not only you like that, I'm not talking about this era, but from thousands of years ago muscles!

First. the remaining part of the remains of a 2,200 year old ancient pastors have been on display at the Israel Museum last Tuesday. CT scan showed the mummy was that this man, named Iret-hor-IRU (Eye of Horus Protection) illnesses such as arterial blockage tooth decay, the diseases commonly found in many fatty society obesity today.

Discovered 2,200-year-old mummy obesity

Exhibition curator Galit Bennett said the mummy is nicknamed Alex met many other diseases such as osteoporosis and loss benefits, the signs indicate that this person when alive were eating a lot of sugar and starch. Alex autopsy showed less activity and less in the sun, just sitting in the enjoyment of life's regal Egyptian elite.

"Osteoporosis is a disease typical in the 20th century, when people no longer have to work hard anymore. Generation onwards he began tied to the computer screen more", he Bennett pot. "We were surprised that in the past many thousands of years ago, also has the physical inactivity affects the body as this example here."

But what really is not strange, because according to the ancient sculptors, the overweight is a sign of money and health. That the food is not plentiful and the "fat" is something to pursue. In Europe, major weight shows you have a life of wealth, not hard physical labor whatsoever. It seems that the ancient Egyptians did not so much different.

But Alex is not "obese mummy" single. An experimental sessions were conducted in 2013 on the 137 mummies from around the world have shown that 34% of these mummies was cardiovascular disease. Even the study of the corpse found near Kagamil Island Alaska also showed that cardiovascular disease is not uncommon, even in those who regularly exercise.

Although many consider atherosclerotic disease is disease of modern times, but the evidence that has emerged from this disease before forming the modern world has opened up the possibility that cardiovascular disease is a nature has not been studied. Anyway, do not be inactive, and eating too much food is harmful to health, keep yourself healthy.