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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Source please?

Also, by plant-based do you mean that the diet can include meat-based sources of nutrition as long as that's not the main source?

I am not saying that plant heavy diets are bad. On the contrary, I live with one but I still eat meat eggs and dairy and would expect ancient Romans with spending money such as Gladiators to do the same.

Edit. Oh yes, tell me exactly how it works by downvoating me and not providing a source. I forgot that I was not in a place of learning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Also, comparing modern athletes to ancient Romans is about like comparing them to today's gifted teens in terms of pure physicality.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Let the man cook. I want to see what type of jambalaya he brings out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That basically backs up exactly what the other commenter hypothesized.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh hi, I'm that other guy reading the article that actually hypothesizes that the local diet was heavy in barley and beans and that of the bones examined there were also two anomalous gladiators who are hypothesized to have pinned from other parts of the Romin empire that had a diet much heavier than average in meat.

Shocking that a town in the middle of arid turkey had a higher consumption of plant-based materials that don't spoil as easily when compared to a more coastal or metropolitan environment that had better access to live markets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So does the fact that they were drinking bone broth for the calcium supplements make them murderers as well?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Citation for gladiators drinking bone broth for calcium?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How do you not even read the articles that you post?

You should work on that it's seeming to be a trend with your vegan fantasy posts.

"But a diet of barley and vegetables would have left the fighters with a serious calcium deficit. To keep their bones strong, historical accounts say, they downed vile brews of charred wood or bone ash,"

Bone ash is a material made by calcifying bones, then crushing them into powder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

right, so bone ash and wood, not bone broth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And pray do tell what would you call bone Ash when you rehydrate it and turn it into a drink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's really funny watching you squirm and try to weed your way out of this. How does it feel to be someone trying to preach about the greatness of vegetarianism and at the same time driving people away from it by just being a shitty person and disingenuous??? We both know if this was a your little fiefdumb you would have banned me four comments ago just like you did then there last time you had put your foot in your mouth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's really funny watching you believe that a drink is comparable the foundational foods of a diet, to the staple foods. You really have zero clue about nutrition.