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CountAllVotes

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18. oh good!

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 10:55 AM

Mar 2013

At least I won't be alone when I'm dead and gone! to the mummies!!!

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Hardening of the arteries common in ancient mummies [View all] kwassa Mar 2013 OP

Well that pretty much blows the theory about the modern diet hobbit709 Mar 2013 #1

Sturgeon's Law: bemildred Mar 2013 #2

That's correct. Less than 10% of total cholesterol is from diet Warpy Mar 2013 #4

That is one of them, yeah. bemildred Mar 2013 #6

We just switched back to real butter from margarine. Very happy to have done so, too! GreenPartyVoter Mar 2013 #30

Yes because butter has actual flavor Warpy Mar 2013 #34

I ain't feeling so good myself mokawanis Mar 2013 #3

Um, always thought the ancients ate much better than we do now. freshwest Mar 2013 #5

There is a lot of data to suggest that they did before the agricultural revolution Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #13

But .. But ... I don't want to go Paleo. I don't like meat. Arugula Latte Mar 2013 #19

Just keep on with the nuts that grow on trees. You can't go wrong there. And that's Paleo. freshwest Mar 2013 #25

I question that because they were probably on as much of a meat eaters diet as we are the only jwirr Mar 2013 #27

Talking about processing and chemicals - they didn't have as much as we do, is all. freshwest Mar 2013 #29

Bingo. They had very little preservatives. That is a good point. jwirr Mar 2013 #32

hereditory MFM008 Mar 2013 #7

I Think the Point RobinA Mar 2013 #10

Yes, it's the authoritarian attitude based on wrong ideas that needs to go. bemildred Mar 2013 #14

Wouldn't you think they'd be pretty hard after 3500 years? AAO Mar 2013 #8

According To The Article RobinA Mar 2013 #11

Then they really should refer to it as calcification of the artery walls. AAO Mar 2013 #15

LMAO - my thought exactly! Myrina Mar 2013 #17

Or it could be characteristic of people who live in climates dry enough to allow mummification Bossy Monkey Mar 2013 #9

Whose remains were mummified? Andy Stanton Mar 2013 #12

This is exactly what they originally suggested when they first discovered the evidence in Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #16

Well yes, but also didn't the rich of the ancient to medievel world generally live longer than the MillennialDem Mar 2013 #20

Shh! Quit making sense! :) IdaBriggs Mar 2013 #23

That wouldn't have been true in pre-Columbian and Alaskan groups. sybylla Mar 2013 #28

oh good! CountAllVotes Mar 2013 #18

I'm being cryogenically frozen MillennialDem Mar 2013 #21

really? CountAllVotes Mar 2013 #22

Yes, I'd rather have a chance at life after death than not. Religion, speculation about the MillennialDem Mar 2013 #24

Too much salt? think4yourself Mar 2013 #26

I recall reading a similar article a few years back, but in that case it was about a Chinese GreenPartyVoter Mar 2013 #31

Glad to know its not only me madokie Mar 2013 #33