Tuesday, March 12, 2013
We should? We are!
It's not just Satanic media idiots who don't read their own stories.
Two "science" items from the "science" of anthropology, appearing on the same day.
First item:
"A study led by Thomas and Randall Thompson ... examined mummies from four drastically different climates and diets -- and from cultures that mummified regular people, including ancient Peruvians, Ancestral Puebloans, the Unangans of the Aleutian Islands and ancient Egyptians. Overall, the researchers found probable or definite atherosclerosis in 34 percent of the mummies studied. "We found that heart disease is a serial killer that has been stalking mankind for thousands of years ... A common assumption is that the rise in levels of atherosclerosis is predominantly lifestyle-related, and that if modern humans could emulate pre-industrial or even pre-agricultural lifestyles, that atherosclerosis, or at least its clinical manifestations, would be avoided. Our findings seem to cast doubt on that assumption, and at the very least, we think they suggest that our understanding of the causes of atherosclerosis is incomplete, and that it might be somehow inherent to the process of human aging."Second item: Northwest coast natives were definitely smoking tobacco 1000 years ago. And what were they eating? Fatty meat, no greens. (Actually the interesting thing about this story is the picture of the pipe they used for smoking. Sophisticated ceramic work.) In other words, we ARE imitating the ancients, at least some of them. Eating lots of greasy food and smoking tobacco. Seems to be a general human tendency. ¶ 3:38 PM
