Medieval diets ‘far more healthy’
If they managed to survive plague and pestilence, medieval humans may have enjoyed healthier lifestyles than their descendants today, it has been claimed.
Survive the plague? Hardly. the plague was a death sentence – over 99% of people infected died from it. You didn’t catch the plague and lived through it.
Their low-fat, vegetable-rich diet – washed down by weak ale – was far better for the heart than today’s starchy, processed foods, one GP says.
And while they consumed more they burnt off calories in a workout of 12 hours’ labour, Dr Roger Henderson concludes.
But the Shropshire GP accepts that life for even prosperous peasants was tough.
Tough?
Here’s life in the anarco-syndicalist commune:
How tough was it?
“If you got to 30 in those days you were doing well, past 40 and you were distinctly long in the tooth,” he concedes.
Maybe that would explain the low rates of heart disease, perhaps?
Difficult for the heart to wear out when it was in use for only 30-40 years.
I grew up on a dairy farm. I remember my father’s hands being gnarled from how many times he’d broken fingers while working. I’d like to invite that fatuous GP to farm for a few years. Let’s see how many permanent injuries he ends up with.
Sorry, but yahoos who advocate the life of a peasant (for everyone else, not themselves!) really irritate me …