The Mummies' Curse: Heart Disease

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lenjost of DC 6:02PM January 09, 2010

I'm just going to talk about EMBALMING! ( mumification ). Im just a sixth grader studing about a topic in class, mummification, or, embalming. The soft insides in the body would be put into canopic jars. There was four types of canopic jars, Qebehsenuef ( Falcon - Headed God ) would look after the intestines. Hapy ( I like the name! ( Baboon - headed God ) looked after the lungs. Duamutef ( Jackal - Headed God ) looked after the stoumach, and last but not lease, Imsety ( Human - Headed God ) looked after the liver. Embalming requiered a TON of natural items used in the following - linen, sawdust, lichen, beezwax, resin, natron ( type of salt to keep the body from reteriating ), onion, nile mud, linen pads, and frankincense.

Nicole of CA 9:19PM January 05, 2010

the mummie heart disease was very interesting am tweleve years old i would like to know more send it to my email how did mummies live so long withdiabites andobese thats interesting

JalilHarris of NJ 7:15PM November 18, 2009

the mummie heart disease was very interesting am tweleve years old i would like to know more send it to my email how did mummies live so long withdiabites andobese thats interesting

JalilHarris of NJ 7:15PM November 18, 2009

It seems to me that this is just a further example of diseases of affluence. Nearly all of the mummies identified would have lead privileged lifestyles, as the article mentioned, eating meat. This particular dietary change is one of the major contributors to diseases of affluence. It shocks me that the author spends so much time talking about the repercussions for genetics, but not nearly as much talking about the fact that these people were probably most susceptible, not because of genetic predisposition, but because of lifestyle...the same number one contributor as today.

Josh of TX 5:17PM November 18, 2009

Bible says that these guys ate the fattest portions when they could afford it. Yes, the junk food of the day does not help. Genetics could still doom these guys anyway. A post-Eden world is no Eden.

Melchizedek 4:14PM November 18, 2009

i'm gonna say that mummies are usually wealthy people...they didn't get much excersise and ate a lot of the saturated "junk food" of the day while the common folk ate basic, but healthy food and worked thier butts off everyday. They had "special" festive and holiday type food back then too. Treats and other goodies. and the wealthy mummies got to eat it a lot more often than the poor people.

tom of TX 10:34AM November 18, 2009

There is a large body of research on Paleolithic man and nutrition that is being completely ignored here: Paleolithic man did not have the "modern" illnesses that came later with the advent of agriculture. The Egyptians were not a Paleolithic civilization; they were a Neolithic one as it came after the rise of farming. By these standards, the Egyptians did in fact eat a "modern" diet and so had "modern" diseases.

Dirk of GA 9:44AM November 18, 2009