Comments on: Medieval Serfs Ate Better Than We Eat

By: lauren

lauren — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:58:11 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if we health freaks (in a positive way) think in tandem hehe.. I just released a write-up called �Eat Like Our Forefathers Did� yesterday! How timely.Charlotte you take the words right out of my mouth.Sometimes I do find those artificial repetitions a little silly.Instead, why not, forgo the car wash, the lift, park a little further, walk etc and then spend less time gym-ing. TIS STOLEN! RIGHT OF MAH BLOODY WEBSITE! TIS AN OUTRAGE AN I WILL BEH ACALLIN PARLIAMENT! YES SIH! I WILL SO YOU JUST GET CHESELF AREADY!

By: bob

bob — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:25:30 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if we health freaks (in a positive way) think in tandem hehe.. I just released a write-up called “Eat Like Our Forefathers Did” yesterday! How timely.Charlotte you take the words right out of my mouth.Sometimes I do find those artificial repetitions a little silly.Instead, why not, forgo the car wash, the lift, park a little further, walk etc and then spend less time gym-ing.

By: charlotte

charlotte — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:42:33 +0000

I’ve often thought it ironic that we spend hours sweating it out on pointless treadmills while using all of our labor-saving devices (like cars) when, instead, if we lived (and ate!) like our ancestors we would get plenty of exercise milking the cows and plowing our fields. Of course, I am very grateful to live in a day and age with no plague (thanks for the clarification Barry!)

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:39:54 +0000

Technically speaking, pestilence and plague can mean the same thing. But more often pestilence is used in the general sense of the word “disease” while plague refers specifically to the bubonic plague or “black death” which wiped out almost half the European population in the fourteenth century.

By: Tad

Tad — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:29:43 +0000

What’s the difference between pestilence and plague?

By: Tom WIlliams

Tom WIlliams — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:12:57 +0000

I believe that medieval folks were probably healthier, with all the lean meat and nutrient and antioxidant rich beer that they consumed. And these people didn’t even have to deal with steroids!