Re:How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
by zbentley on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:15AM
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Yep. Living a (relatively) hermetic/isolated/minimal-external-contact lifestyle while the rest of the world was getting ravaged by plagues probably got them a long way. To say nothing of being generally granted greater autonomy/self-sufficiency without invasion/domination by political orders, and living a lifestyle that emphasized self-sufficiency and discipline.
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Re:How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
by masklinn on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:25AM
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I'm guessing the relative insulation from feast/famine regimes helped quite a bit.
Re:How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
by fouc on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:10AM
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Except they would fast by choice? Lent or meditation fasts, etc
Re:How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
by rebuilder on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:34AM
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Periodic fasting is quite different from famine, though.
Re:How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
by zbentley on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @08:32AM
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Hell, sometimes they fasted on beer alone: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/25/my-take-what-i-lear...