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Tucked away in the morning papers is an interesting story about the lack of cancers in ancient Egyptian mummies.
A review by Manchester University has found that there is an almost total absence of cancers in fossil records, Neanderthal bones and Egyptian mummies, leading to the conclusion that cancers are man-made. Indeed, they found that the disease rate has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, probably because of pollution and changes in our diet and lifestyle.
Understanding the causes of cancers may ultimately lead to its cure but, in the meantime, it is estimated that around one in three people in the UK will get some form of the disease each year and that 150,000 will die from it.
Scientists say that a healthy diet and regular exercise can prevent around a third of the most common cancers, so perhaps our ancestors’ lifestyle reduced their risk from cancer.
Let’s hope that scientists somewhere can find a cure. Soon.
.
Tucked away in the morning papers is an interesting story about the lack of cancers in ancient Egyptian mummies.
A review by Manchester University has found that there is an almost total absence of cancers in fossil records, Neanderthal bones and Egyptian mummies, leading to the conclusion that cancers are man-made. Indeed, they found that the disease rate has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, probably because of pollution and changes in our diet and lifestyle.
Understanding the causes of cancers may ultimately lead to its cure but, in the meantime, it is estimated that around one in three people in the UK will get some form of the disease each year and that 150,000 will die from it.
Scientists say that a healthy diet and regular exercise can prevent around a third of the most common cancers, so perhaps our ancestors’ lifestyle reduced their risk from cancer.
Let’s hope that scientists somewhere can find a cure. Soon.
.
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