A kingly feast, from the Bayeux Tapestry. (Image: Public domain)
It can seem sometimes like all diet advice boils down to the same basic ideas. Eat vegetables, healthy proteins, avoid processed snack food and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
This was not, however, the case in medieval times.
The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum was created, allegedly, by famous doctors for English royalty and disseminated in the form of a poem. It recommends, very specifically, red wine, fresh…
Source: I Tried a Medieval Diet, And I Didn’t Even Get That Drunk | Atlas Obscura
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I like the sound of this diet a lot. But I couldn’t cope with diluted wine. My sole reason for drinking wine is to be ‘halfway there’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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