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Fit, Healthy & Ready for the Arena  Uploading ....Fighting Gladiators
Gladiators had to fight to live. A recent discovery shows that a rather unexpected, but healthy diet helped them prepare for the arena!
"Reaching out with both hands, I take the skull of a Roman gladiator who lived, fought, and died more than 1,800 years ago in Ephesus, in what is now western Turkey. Together with more than 60 of his young comrades, he was buried in a 200-square-foot plot along the road that led from the city center to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The recent study of the bones from the world's only known gladiator graveyard is filling gaps in the literary sources and archaeological record concerning how gladiators died. But the biggest revelation to come out of the Ephesus cemetery is what kept the gladiators alive--a vegetarian diet rich in carbohydrates, with the occasional calcium supplement."
So there's evidence of vegans being healthy and vegans being fit from way back in ancient times.... Incredible!!
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