[MR] some feast ideas! (see end of article): [MEDIEV-L:39579] Newmonastic diet study

[The Sheltons]

I've seen a study from Merton Priory and St. Mary Stratford Langthorne that
found DISH and
obesity-related osteoarthritis in the monks' skeletons. They also didn't
show the Vitamin D and
iron deficiencies that were found in lay skeletons.  The monks were
Cistercians, an Order
founded in protest of the excesses of the Benedictines.  They obviously fell
off the wagon
over time. Not sure if this is the same study referenced in the Guardian
article.

John le Burguillun


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Subject: [MR] some feast ideas! (see end of article): [MEDIEV-L:39579]
Newmonastic diet study


>
> The UK broadsheet the Guardian today reported a new study by Philippa
> Patrick (of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL) on monastic diet. She has
> been looking at a wide range of bones from monastic cemeteries at Tower
> Hill (*) and Merton and has discovered a great number of them to have
> suffered from disease related to obesity, especially one called 'Dish'.
>
> Apparently, the findings were introduced in a paper at the International
>    Mediaeval Congress in Leeds. Does anyone know any more about this
> study and when/where it will be published? I think it looks potentially
> fascinating.
>
>
> Link to the Guardian report is here:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1261533,00.html
>


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