Re: Gladiator Diet
- From: geronimo <Jamesw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:46:55 -0600
some 70 gladiators buried at Ephesus seem to prove that they ate"Tests performed on the bits of bone taken from the skeletons of
mainly barley, beans, and dried fruit,"<<
Come on, from a few bits of bone they know what these people were
eating? Forgive me for a being a bit skeptical.
On Wed, 7 Apr 4 01:07:39 GMT, "William Sakovich" <sakovich@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Read an article in the paper today about the tests conducted on
the bones of gladiators by Austrian anthropologists.ssssssss
Here is a section from that article:
"Tests performed on the bits of bone taken from the skeletons of
some 70 gladiators buried at Ephesus seem to prove that they ate
mainly barley, beans, and dried fruit," said Karl Grossschmidt, a
forensic doctor who took part in the stuudy by Austria's
institute of archaeology.
"This diet, which has been mentioned in the oral history, is
rather sad, but it gave the gladiators a lot of strength even if
it made them fat," said Grossschmidt, who is a member of Vienna's
institute of histology and embryology."
Another researcher said it was possible that they put on weight
for the hand-to-hand combat in the ring, and perhaps lost the
weight when they were not fighting.
Some aspects of this are puzzling.
Granted, they might have been helped by the addition of green
vegetables and fish or chicken, but why is a diet of barley
(probably unrefined), beans, and fruit considered "rather sad"?
Especially since the doctor said in the same sentence that "it
gave (them) a lot of strength".
He also says it made them fat, but I cannot imagine getting fat
on a diet of those foods. Perhaps if I ate a lot of them.
- Bill Sakovich
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