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I don't see how the diet of gladiators from thousands of years ago would be important, significant, or relevant. I guess some people are easily swayed by certain stories. What's next... the diet of Mongolian deep-sea divers?
Do you know the best way to eat for the planet? research the slow food movement. This is where you source your food from the closest possible places. Small farms and ranches where you are not relying on commercial produce being trucked and flown allover the planet.
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That's the localvore movement. Slow food can come from anywhere, it just gets prepared with intention.
So, I am supposed to base my diet on people with an average life expectancy of 25.
Gladiators were fed cheaply. Why waste good meat on guys who will be dead in 2 weeks anyway? They loaded them up with high energy carbs and then waved good-bye while they built their coffins.
Meanwhile, I would rather die a year or two younger than give up steak and bacon and hamburgers.
92-year-old billionaire Warren Buffet, who subsists on hamburgers and other fast food, said he would rather give up a couple of years of life than eat what he doesn't like. The man eats at MacDonalds for free.
Please show us the data to support that statement.
Like all the top tier health sites like Mayo Clinic, etc.
Any way.... gladiators...
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Like all the top tier health sites like Mayo Clinic, etc.
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That's unsubstantiated opinion, not data....If you'd look into it critically, you'd find there is only preciously feeble data to support the opinion.
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I don't see how the diet of gladiators from thousands of years ago would be important, significant, or relevant. I guess some people are easily swayed by certain stories. What's next... the diet of Mongolian deep-sea divers?
Exactly-- Considering the life expectancy of a prisoner turned gladiator was less than three yrs, they could go on an All Twinky Diet and it wouldn't change anything....Why do sky-divers wear helmets? If the shute doesn't open, will it make a difference?
That's the localvore movement. Slow food can come from anywhere, it just gets prepared with intention.
Localvore and Slow Food are basically the same thing. Slow Food is a movement, while Localvore is a term.
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking. It was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986 and has since spread worldwide. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds, and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It promotes local small businesses and sustainable foods. It also focuses on food quality, rather than quantity.[2] It was the first established part of the broader slow movement. It speaks out against overproduction and food waste.[3] It sees globalization as a process in which small and local farmers and food producers should be simultaneously protected from and included in the global food system.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food
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