For its expanded study, the team studied 137 mummies including Egyptians, Peruvians, Aleutian Islanders and ancestors of the Pueblo people in the American Southwest. Diets ranged widely from group to group. The Peruvians, for example, grew corn, potatoes and beans while Aleutian Islanders ate sea urchins, seals, otters and whales.That's an unsubstantiated conclusion. Only a third of mummies show evidence of atherosclerosis. Shut up.
With these findings, researchers now say that the underlying cause of heart disease may depend less on diet and lifestyle than previously thought.
"This disease is an inherent part of human aging," said Dr. Randall Thompson, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, who led the study.
"Much of what we think we know is wrong," said Dr. L. Samuel Wann, study author and director of cardiology at the Wisconsin Heart Hospital in Milwaukee.
No, much of what we know is right. Much of what you BELIEVE is wrong.
Learn your lesson. Stop believing your own bullshit.
Atherosclerosis is caused by microbes.
One of the microbes is Strep mutans, which lives on teeth.
Ancient Egyptians and Peruvians had terrible teeth. That's well documented.
Another one is Strep pneumoniae.
And the Alaskan mummies show evidence of lung infection.
