How our ancestors avoided cancer

How our ancestors avoided cancer

How our ancestors avoided cancer

Cancer is a disease accompanied by most of the neighborhoods in one way or another. We all know someone who has had the look overall picture is encouraging with incidence rates rising year after year.

This steady increase is largely explained by the fact that the population grow older at a steady rate but it is also linked to unhealthy lifestyles, smoking and obesity.

And then what about our ancestors? Have you faced a life shortened by cancer or were they healthier than modern man?

According to research conducted on the skeletons dating back thousands of years that the cancer was not this something they encountered people frequently.

Conducted by Dr. Mario Slaus of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb tests on the skeletal remains of more than three thousand people for evidence of neoplasms in abnormal tissue growth is difficult to control it.

The back bone in the academic year of 5300 BC to the ninth century AD and had been collected from archaeological sites across Croatia.

Analysis revealed four cases of tumors in three or four people, ranging in age from 50 to 60 years.

The findings revealed four cases involved bone neoplasms, but all were benign, with little potential to become malignant.

Said Dr. Slaus: "We found no evidence of secondary bone tumors in any individual in the collection, a factor that can Nstodha from the fact that the mean age of death is 35.6 years."

He added: "bone tumors, malignant and benign relatively rare, even in young people who have a higher incidence of these tumors, while secondary bone tumors are associated with older age, although it is more common." Methods of modern life

And Dr. Slaus point of view is that the cause of premature death for our ancestors probably due to common diseases and they may not have survived long enough for cancer to take hold.

The study showed that the average life expectancy in the atheist and the twentieth century than his record in the past and this is mainly due to better nutrition, improved health awareness and health promotion