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re: Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:20 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:20 pm to athenslife101
Does this surprise you?
They did manual labor all day.
Ten hours plus I'd guess..
I could easily see them burning that much.
They did manual labor all day.
Ten hours plus I'd guess..
I could easily see them burning that much.
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Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:22 pm to athenslife101
I'm guessing that's a lot
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:24 pm to Sao
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Think about that, though. The sheer amount of not only food cooking per man, but harvest/kill/store per man per day seems impossible.
I mean, there were multiple people in every town who spent all day making bread. Bread production was highly regulated to produce a lot of bread. And it was illegal for people to make their own bread. A lot of bread was being made
Also, a lot of the calories would have been in beer.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:24 pm to athenslife101
Most Americans eat that in one meal.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:25 pm to Sao
quote:
Think about that, though. The sheer amount of not only food cooking per man, but harvest/kill/store per man per day seems impossible.
It’s not possible. Whoever believes that or wrote that has no idea the scale of production that incurs. Even if just eating 2lbs of butter a day where are the number of cows to support that in the fricking Middle Ages
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:27 pm to athenslife101
This is complete and total bullshite.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:27 pm to BigPerm30
Also, things were colder back then. No internal heating a lot of the time.
They needed more calories to deal with the cold
They needed more calories to deal with the cold
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:29 pm to athenslife101
quote:I’ll bet it was a lot of fiber daily so maybe not too bad. My latrines aren’t bad when I’m eating a lot of fiber
Their latrines after feast days…. Yuck
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:29 pm to athenslife101
quote:
mean, there were multiple people in every town who spent all day making bread. Bread production was highly regulated to produce a lot of bread. And it was illegal for people to make their own bread. A lot of bread was being made
4 medium Domino's pepperoni pizzas are less than 8000 calories.
Where on earth did a community grow that much grain to bake that much bread per day? for an average farmer/laborer?
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:32 pm to Sao
Before gmo the crops were a lot healthier
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:33 pm to athenslife101
quote:
To avoid errors that may arise from the underreporting of food intake, energy requirement should be determined by measuring expenditure directly. Several studies that examined expenditure report a range of 45 to 62 kcal per kg body weight per day. Variation in this figure is likely due to both degree of cold and extent of physical activity. Under sedentary conditions in the cold, requirements may range from 3,632 to 4,317 kcal/d or about 46 to 57 kcal per kg body weight per day. In more highly strenuous circumstances in the cold, requirements of 4,200 to around 5,000 kcal/d, or 54 to 62 kcal per kg body weight per day, may be required. The estimate of energy requirement for strenuous circumstances is not out of line with current
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:35 pm to el Gaucho
quote:
gmo
That shite taste better
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:35 pm to Sao
quote:
Where on earth did a community grow that much grain to bake that much bread per day? for an average farmer/laborer?
It’s almost like 95% of the adult population were farmers making food…
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:40 pm to athenslife101
Need a link to this peer-reviewed study with respect to feudal times. Does it account for the sheer amount of children they had back then that would die before they turned 14? That would offset a lot of that caloric budget associated with that scale of of production when compared to a bunch of middle age farmers slaving away for 30 years.
Or was it a YouTube video with the creators ideas in the comments.
Or was it a YouTube video with the creators ideas in the comments.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:42 pm to athenslife101
quote:
It’s almost like 95% of the adult population were farmers making food…
I think you're purposely ignoring glaring logic just to fall on Sir Lancelot's sword here.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:47 pm to athenslife101
Obesity remains an issue with farmer baws on average. Some fat mother frickers.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:48 pm to deeprig9
quote:
This is complete and total bullshite.
Yep
Even if they're doing manual labor all day they aren't going to consistently be able to burn through that many calories
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:50 pm to athenslife101
Them baws had serious #GAINZ.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:50 pm to Privateer 2007
quote:
Does this surprise you?
They did manual labor all day.
Ten hours plus I'd guess..
I could easily see them burning that much.
It should surprise you.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:52 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:Yeah. Do the most active people in the world alive today even approach that number? I know performing manual labor for 14-18 hours a day requires a shite ton of calories but there are still people doing that and I doubt they're eating 9k calories a day. People in medieval times didn't have fundamentally different bodies than ours.
I would need to see the research to believe that.
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