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

[Ceara ni Neill]

Hmmm...fat monks falling from a cart...perhaps this is the origin of the
nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'?
<ducking, giggling & running>

---Ceara



> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <SNSpies at aol.com>
> To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:35 PM
> 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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