Detected 2,200-year-old mummy with obesity caused by eating a lot of sugar

People are old, important enough to be embalmed, but that's not the image to follow.

Are you overweight and obese, more lazy? It seems but not only are you like that, I'm not talking about this era, but thousands of years ago!

First. the remains of the 2,200-year-old corpse of an ancient pastor were displayed at the Israeli Museum on Tuesday. The CT scan shows that this person, called Iret-hor-iru (Horus's Eye Protection) suffers from diseases such as tooth decay or arterial clogging, the common diseases seen in many fat societies. fertile today.

This mummy suffers from common diseases in today's obese society.

Galit Bennett, the exhibitor, said the mummy , nicknamed Alex , had many other diseases, such as osteoporosis and gum loss, signs that the person ate a lot of sugar and starch when he was alive. The examination showed that Alex was less active and less sunny, just sitting in the house enjoying the royal life of the Egyptian elite.

" Osteoporosis is a typical disease in the 20th century, when people no longer have to work hard. That generation has started to stick with the computer screen more , " said Bennett. to speak. "We were surprised that in the past many thousands of years ago, there were also people who were lazy to exercise that affected the body like this example."

But it is not strange, because according to ancient sculptors, being overweight is a sign of money and health . Food at that time was not plentiful and "fat" was something to pursue. In Europe, big weight shows you have a rich life, not hard labor. It seems like the time of ancient Egypt was not much different.

CT scans show that this person has many diseases such as osteoporosis, tooth decay and gain.

But Alex is not the only "obese mummy" . An experiment conducted in 2013 on 137 mummies from around the world showed that 34% of these mummies had cardiovascular disease. Even studies of corpses found in Kagamil Island near Alaska have also shown that cardiovascular disease is not uncommon, even among people who are constantly active.

Although many people consider atherosclerosis to be a disease of modern times, the evidence that the disease has emerged before the modern world was formed has opened the possibility that these cardiovascular diseases There is an undiscovered nature.

Anyway, don't be lazy to exercise and eat too many unhealthy foods, keep yourself healthy.