Old "ice man" shows the signal of balanced food

.N .- Scientists have deciphered the last food of a hunter from 5,300 years ago whose frozen body was found in the Alps.
The contents of the hunter's stomach called Oetzi ] The Iceman give a glimpse of what the ancient Europeans ate five millennia ago, the researchers said.

The menu, described in the review Current Biology, included meat and wild goat fat. , red deer meat and whole wheat seeds, which Oetzi ate shortly before his death.

Traces of ferns and spores have also been discovered. Scientists believe that he has swallowed the plant involuntarily or perhaps as a cure for parasites found in his gut.

Although the researchers examined Oetzi's intestines, they were now able to study his stomach.

That after the death of the man, the organ has moved upwards. It is only in 2009, 18 years after the discovery of remains near the border between Italy and Austria, that a radiologist has detected it behind ribcage. After thawing the body slowly, the team took samples and rehydrated them.

Nearly half of the contents of the stomach were ibex fat, a wild alpine goat. It's a lot of fat, but scientists think that discovery makes sense.

"It was a challenging environment," said microbiologist Frank Maixner, lead author of the study. "They should be prepared, they should eat food that gives them the energy they need to survive." AP