1. ● Obesity in Ancient Egypt
History of Medicine Department, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.
● Obesity in Ancient Egypt
M. Karamanou, G. Tsoucalas, F. Marineli, S. Samara, 
I. Armenis, G. Androutsos
In ancient Egypt being overweighed was a sign of wealth. Obesity characterizes many old kingdom portraits perhaps because it was a sign of comfortable life and a high position in society. Such examples are the grossly obese harpist playing before Prince Aki, a fat man enjoying food presented to him by his lean servants in Mereruka’s tomb, an obese male with folds of flesh, gynaecomastia and a paunch, the pharaoh Akhenaten depicted with eunuchoid obesity and the Queen of Punt. In Egyptian statues, pharaoh’s used to appear with slender physique; however studies of the royal mummified bodies such as those of the pharaohs Amenophis III, Ramses III and the queen Hatshepsut, first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt, reveal that they were obese even though their portraits do not depict them as such.
●A wall relief of an obese male with folds of flesh, gynaecomastia and a paunch.
●Queen of Punt.
● Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Although the ancient Egyptians being concerned with diet as a way of health preservation, frequently mentioned obesity in their papyrus and they developed several methods of limiting food intake described by the ancient Greek historians Herodotus (5th century B.C.) and Diodorus Siculus (1st century B.C.). Although obesity personified the royalty and wealth, was certainly not the Egyptian beauty ideal. Egyptians depicted their enemies as obese individuals. In an effort to keep their weight in balance they vomited and purged themselves three times a month.
●Herodotus.
●Diodorus Siculus.
●Mummy of Queen Hatshepsut.