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Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:22 pm to athenslife101
quote:now that’s more believable and still a shite ton of calories per day. The average human today consumes about 2,500 calories per day for reference
But I think the point still it’s did jf they’re eating 4k-5k calories
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:26 pm to athenslife101
In the book Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambose says the men of the Corp of Discovery ate 10k calories per day while rowing up the Missouri River. They had full time hunters just to harvest wild game.
Edit: I just looked it up he said 10 pounds of meat.
Venison is about 150 calories per 3 oz. About 800 calories per pound. So, that's about 8,000 calories per day.
Edit: I just looked it up he said 10 pounds of meat.
Venison is about 150 calories per 3 oz. About 800 calories per pound. So, that's about 8,000 calories per day.
This post was edited on 2/20/24 at 10:39 am
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:28 pm to athenslife101
quote:Sure, that's much more believable. I found a paper earlier that estimated the average calorie intake of a healthy young slave doing fieldwork in the south all day to be 4k, and mentioned it in the thread.
Again, maybe his amount is too high. He wasn’t writing a paper for review. But I think the point still it’s did jf they’re eating 4k-5k calories
Male Marines burn around 3900 a day in boot camp for further reference.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:30 pm to CollegeFBRules
quote:
What was the typical daily calorie burn of a medieval farmer?
A hell of a lot more than a farmer today sitting in an air conditioned cab that can plow 30 rows in one pass
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:37 pm to athenslife101
They had Golden Corrals too?
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:38 pm to athenslife101
Irish laborers used to be ‘paid’ in Guinness
Some workers would drink 16 per day
Some workers would drink 16 per day
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:42 pm to CollegeFBRules
quote:
What was the typical daily calorie burn of a medieval farmer?
I imagine it varied a lot by season. In winter you wouldn't be doing much except fixing things and feeding the livestock.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 9:46 pm to GreenRockTiger
quote:And even that only gets you to a little over a third of the way there.
Irish laborers used to be ‘paid’ in Guinness
Some workers would drink 16 per day
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:07 pm to Lawyered
quote:
Hard work manually plowing the fields
Was this before the invention of the ox?
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:21 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:
I would need to see the research to believe that. You have to try to eat that many calories a day. Even in caloric dense food
Viking farmers and inuits often ate even more.
You want to look up a really scary number, fiber consumption.
Northern farmers ate 150-200 grams of fiber per day.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:22 pm to athenslife101
They also were about 10,000% more physically active than we are today.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:23 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:
The average human today consumes about 2,500 calories per day for reference
Yeah if you count starving africans and indians.
The average american eats 3-4k in refined garbage per day.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:26 pm to athenslife101
And yet they were 9000% skinnier once again proving Adkins is correct
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:37 pm to TutHillTiger
5k calories isn't all that much.
Hell I think it was 4th of july 2019 I did something like 20k calories in a day.
Tequila and cupcakes.
Hell I think it was 4th of july 2019 I did something like 20k calories in a day.
Tequila and cupcakes.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:40 pm to TutHillTiger
quote:
And yet they were 9000% skinnier once again proving Adkins is correct
Add in that nothing they ate was processed, full of preservatives, or full of chemicals you can’t pronounce.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 10:53 pm to 9Fiddy
quote:This is true for most of the population but there are subsets of people today that we can use for rough comparison. I don't believe that the average single medieval farmer, even when considering the various difficult tasks they performed, exceeded the calories, every day, of those burned by two 18 year old males in Marine boot camp or two 25 year old male slaves working a cane field in Barbados. Not saying it's impossible, but I would be interested in anyone's attempt at a farmer's hypothetical daily schedule that realistically demonstrates those kind of numbers (not chopping wood at full intensity for 12 hours straight, every single day, as was offered earlier).
They also were about 10,000% more physically active than we are today.
The physical toll and misery involved in reaching those numbers on a mass scale is civilization collapsing, or, at the very least, revolution inducing. A task that shouldn't have been too difficult for what was, apparently, the swolest, most physically active group of folks in history.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 2/19/24 at 11:22 pm to CollegeFBRules
quote:
What was the typical daily calorie burn of a medieval farmer?
I'd guess about 7000-9000
Posted on 2/19/24 at 11:29 pm to 1BamaRTR
quote:
It would literally take too much time to consume that much food
Eh, a butter sandwich gets you about 350 calories. Two slices of bread and two pats of butter. Add a slice of cheese and you're at 500. A slice of ham gets you to 700.
I could easily eat 10 of those in a day in a total of less than an hour.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 11:53 pm to Korkstand
quote:I realize your response was directed at someone addressing the consumption side of the argument, but that isn't what makes it implausible. It's easy to concoct methods for consuming that many calories. The problem is burning them, which, ostensibly, they did, because it's difficult to perform the kind of routine necessary to burn 9k calories a day when you're too fat to get out of bed.
Eh, a butter sandwich gets you about 350 calories. Two slices of bread and two pats of butter. Add a slice of cheese and you're at 500. A slice of ham gets you to 700.
I could easily eat 10 of those in a day in a total of less than an hour.
So the questions become, how the hell were they averaging so many calories, why did they devote so much labor to pursue calories that were only needed to produce those calories, and just how incredibly productive were these medieval farms?
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