Egyptian Mummies Had Clogged Arteries
Modern Tests on Mummies Showed the Ancient Egyptians Fought Heart Disease Too
A group of scientists said that, on a whim, they performed a computerized tomography (CT) scan on a collection of 22 mummies housed at the Egyptian National Museum of Antiquities in Cairo to see if they too suffered from the plaque build-up in arteries that lead to coronary artery disease.
"We didn't believe it was going to be so intense," said Adel H. Allam, the lead author of a letter to the editor published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "We thought that we would find it, but maybe very rarely, and we thought that if we did find it, it wouldn't be so severe."
The plaque was, of course, long gone. The mummies lived between 1981 B.C. and 364 A.D., and only 16 of the mummies had heart tissue left. However, doctors could see evidence of advanced atherosclerosis (plaque build-up that causes hardening of the arteries) by looking for calcium deposits in a CT scan used to diagnose people today.
Il succo del discorso e' che se anche le mummie avevano le arterie intasate il Fast Food e' salvo!!! Americani ciccioni continuate a abboffarvi da McDee.
Altra notizia curiosa:
In una cittadina del Colorado, il City Council stava discutendo di una legge che regolamentava il pollame, quando un signore , vestito da gallina, entrava nella sala, sbatteva le ali, si sedeva e poi si allontanava, dopo aver deposto un uovo...
Non commento ulteriormente, non c'e' bisogno.

Intanto parlando di pollame, si avvicina Thanksgiving e quest'anno siamo invitati dai cugini, Alleluia!!! Considerato che ogni Natale , Thanksgiving o altre feste siamo sempre stati a casa nostra, sarebbe ora che qualcun'altro si facesse il mazzo, no?
Devo preparare qualche antipasto (funghi ripieni, carciofi e verdure in agrodolce), panini alla ricotta e la crostata di limone e meringa (visto che mio mariot mi supplica da 5 mesi di prepararla).
Seguiranno foto.Intanto tacchini degli States, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!













