Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S., is often blamed on modern diets and a sedentary lifestyle. According to this thinking, if only people ate the “right” foods and exercised more, they could live longer. This view is encapsulated in the current version of the government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are under review and being reissued soon. They have long recommended dietary habits deemed good for your heart - lower intakes of saturated fat and salt, more emphasis on lean meat and seafood.Yes, well that would make sense if the source was untreated infections...
“Poor diet and physical inactivity are associated with major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States,” according to those guidelines.
But examinations of the bodies of the Unangans from Kagamil Island and other pre-modern people indicate that, in fact, the modern scourge of heart disease is not at all new, and that people who exercised more than we do as a matter of necessity, and whose diet was free from modern temptations, also suffered striking levels of heart disease, according to the researchers.
...By turning up evidence of heart disease in populations with widely varying diets, the mummy research suggests that maybe some other unrecognized cause is at work besides what we choose to eat.
Something that has been suspected for centuries and documented for decades.
In prehistory, they didn't have the knowledge of microorganisms.
And now that we do- our teachers and doctors don't tell us about them.
Even this author doesn't mention it. Amazing.
Update- Ötzi the Iceman Carried Ulcer-Causing Bacteria
A microbe found in atherosclerotic plaques...
