Monday, July 02, 2007

Obese Pharaoh Suffered from Diabetes

Well it's about time I made a post this year! Yes, your faithful Diabetic Seniors webmaster is back and be assured that I have some good things in mind to share with you. I just had to post this today when it hit me that people were suffering from diabetes many centuries ago, just like many do today. The only difference is that today we have more scientific and medical knowledge that we can use to help us prevent the disease.

What am I talking about? The recent discovery of Hatshepsut's mummy indicates that the first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt was obese and suffered from diabetes, and could have died from complications from her diabetes, or from the results of a tumor in her left leg.

One Digg.com user remarks that fat was beautiful in ancient Egypt and references another interesting story about the pharaoh. We still have a long way to go in preventing and curing diabetes, but we have made some progress in our attitudes about obesity.

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