Tarwetieten: voor mensen die nog niet genezen zijn van tarwe
http://melchiormeijer.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/bagel-boobs-het-dolly-parton-effect-van-tarwe/
En: waarom de neolithische mens geen tandarts nodig had (van het blog van William Davis, auteur van de Wheat Belly):
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around 10,000 years ago [...] Homo sapiens first added grains. What happened to Homo sapiens who added grains? [...]:
–Experienced an explosion of tooth decay. While tooth decay was rare among scavenger-hunter-gatherers, it became commonplace in grain consuming humans. Tooth decay was accompanied by tooth abscess and tooth loss.
–Shrinkage of the face and jaw–The gruel or porridge that grains commonly yielded meant less dependence on vigorous mastication. As the face and jaw shrunk, teeth also shrunk but did so inadequately, commonly leading to tooth crowding (thus braces in kids today).
–Iron deficiency–Anthropologists look for porotic hyperostosis or cribra orbitalia, skull evidence of inadequate iron intake or overexposure to blockers of iron absorption (e.g., phytates in grains). (Nematode infestation can add to the effect.)
–Malnutrition–Evidenced by horizontal ridges in the incisors and canine teeth.
–Reduction in stature–Height was reduced by several centimeters. Bone diameter (e.g., femur diameter) was likewise reduced, what the anthropologists call reduced “robusticity.”
–Reduction in brain size–While the cause-effect connection is uncertain, roughly coincident with grain consumption, brain size decreased by 11%–a first in the evolution of Homo.
(Interestingly, the only exception to the above observations are southeast Asian cultures who consumed rice, arguing that rice is somehow different.)
That’s as much as can be inferred from the remains of humans dating back that far. We unfortunately cannot reconstruct soft tissue diseases like colon cancer, heart disease, or dementia. Nonetheless, one pattern is clear: When humans first incorporated grains into their diet 10,000 years ago, corresponding to less than 0.4% of the time Homo species have walked the earth, we suffered substantial downturns in health evidenced by tooth decay, deformity, and deficiencies.
Ancient grains were an expedient, a convenience, a dietary patch in times of deprivation, or the means to increased accessibility that permitted social differentiation away from an egalitarian society. Of course, these humans consumed wild grains, not the modern grains that we have today, courtesy of agribusiness. It’s much worse for us.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/12/anybody-know-a-neolithic-dentist/
Gisteren zag ik dit artikel:
http://www.livescience.com/19944-egyptian-mummy-rare-disease.html
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Ancient Egyptian Mummy Suffered Rare and Painful Disease
Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor
Date: 27 April 2012 Time: 12:38 PM ET
Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes.
When he died he was mummified, following the procedure of the time. The embalmers removed his brain (through the nose it appears), poured resin-like fluid into his head and pelvis, took out some of his organs and inserted four linen “packets” into his body. At some point the mummy was transferred to the 2,300 year-old sarcophagus of a woman named Kareset, an artifact that is now in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia.
The mummy transfer may have been the work of 19th-century antiquity traders keen on selling Kareset's coffin but wanting to have a mummy inside to raise the price.
Nog even een nieuwtje van het tarwefront: Wheat Belly krijgt een vertaling in het Nls in april / mei 2013
http://www.gripopkoolhydraten.nl/nederlandse-vertaling-van-wheat-belly-in-2013-tarwebuik-broodbuik/
Nederlandse vertaling van Wheat Belly in 2013: Tarwebuik – Broodbuik
