Ancient feces reveal how 'marsh diet' left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

EurekAlert! ^ | Thursday, August 15, 2019 | University of Cambridge

[moovova]

“Giant kidney worms can reach up to a metre in length.”

That’ll keep me awake tonight.

[JPG]

It's always the same old shit

Yes but it's a different day.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I resemble that remark.

[Deaf Smith]

“And his hair was perfect.”

[TheNext]

The Paleo diet, Atkins or the Fecal Intestinal Worm diet?

Choose wisely.

[rfp1234]

Or, tune in to Fox when Karl Rove is speaking...

[alexander_busek]

Disposal of human and animal waste into the water around the settlement likely prevented direct faecal pollution of the fenlanders' food, and so prevented infection from roundworm -- the eggs of which have been found at Bronze Age sites across Europe.

Makes no sense.

Read other versions of this article which did not make this statement.

Regards,

[The Great RJ]

Imagine writing your doctoral theses about feces.

[doorgunner69]

So they were digging through crap?

Enhancing that law school application.

Think of the opportunities in San Fagsicko today!

[ckilmer]

british aristocracy teeth went bad sometime after 1500 with the introduction of sugar from the west indies. sugar rotted the teeth of lower classes as it became more inexpensive over the centuries. for the first couple hundred years or so it was an upper class luxury.