Diet and Cancer: Rich French food may have killed Napoleon

captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.abc.net.au)

A scientific study has cleared the British of murdering Napoleon, declaring instead that he was killed by stomach cancer, and French military food was a possible cause.
The paper, by Robert Genta, a professor of pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, goes further. It delves into Napoleon's medical history, his family background and his diet.
Nearly 186 years after Napoleon's death, we still believe the enduring myth in France that the British poisoned Napoleon while he was exiled on the island of St Helena, wherehe died in 1821 at the age of 51

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