re: Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy

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Chopping wood or fetching water from the river would give most on this board a heart attack. Thats probably how these baws started their day.

I dont doubt these estimates for one second.

Anyone that has cleared land with hand tools or chopped/split wood with a weighted splitting maul, or bailed hay knows this.

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The average young male field hand slave working cotton fields in the south or cane plantations in the Caribbean required around 4k a day to maintain. I have a hard time believing that Medieval sustenance farmers in general required double those calories.

And if they did it was a circular problem because the only reason they would need to burn that many calories is to use them to grow more food so they could eat 9k calories a day.