Ancient Roman gluten death seen

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Ancient Roman gluten death seen

ANSA [italy], 01 April, 2010

 

An Italian doctor claims to have found the first Italian case of death

from gluten intolerance in a female skeleton uncovered at an Ancient

Roman site. The skeleton was found in the ancient town of Cosa, today's

Ansedonia, in southern Tuscany. Giovanni Gasbarrini, a doctor at Rome's

Gemelli Hospital, examined bone DNA from the woman, who died in the

first century AD at the age of 18-20. Gasbarrini, whose study has been

published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, noted that the

young woman's jewelry indicated she came from a wealthy family but her

DNA suggested she died of malnutrition.

 

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Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk

EurekAlert [uSA], 1-Apr-2010

 

The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia

4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant. This has been shown by a new

study carried out by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm

University. The study, which has been published in the journal BMC

Evolutionary Biology, supports the researchers' earlier conclusion that

today's Scandinavians are not descended from the Stone Age people in

question but from a group that arrived later. " This group of

hunter-gatherers differed significantly from modern Swedes in terms of

the DNA sequence that we generally associate with a capacity to digest

lactose into adulthood, " says Anna Linderholm, formerly of the

Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, presently at

University College Cork, Ireland.

 

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uu-sas040110.php