2006-10-19 12:46:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Well they did have to walk everywhere and work hard. Nothing was easy even the upper class had to do a lot of walking.
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2006-10-19 12:54:03 · answer #1 · answered by N3WJL 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Chefzilla is right! The ultra-rich used to have LONG parties (combined with orgies, allegedly ...) with LOADS of food - enough for about 10 or 20 times the number of people actually THERE! It was all really delicious and luxurious, and they wanted to eat everything, so they chucked up between courses!
These were the sort of dishes where they had a tiny bird cooked inside a larger bird, which was inside something bigger - can't remember whether it was a larger bird or a small animal though! (I do NOT suggest that I was there! I merely saw a documentary where they'd prepared some of the recipes from Roman days!) Anyway, they had one EACH - then threw up so they could eat something else!! Greedy bar-stewards...!!
Of course there were some overweight people too ... some of the 'guests' might not have been good at self-induced vomiting, plus there were other people - sort of upper-middle class - who could afford to eat more than they NEEDED, but not enough to have to vomit so they could eat dessert!!
2006-10-20 06:47:43 · answer #2 · answered by _ 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Most ordinary Romans didn't eat like the elite, and for them they had a special room called a vomitorium. I've only read about this and can't verify it's accuracy, although it was a custom among the elite to do this. And we thought eating disorders were a modern problem! Not so.
2006-10-19 22:39:55 · answer #3 · answered by ron k 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because in Roman times, the pharmaceutical industry did not exist, and neither did the big food industries or the advertising industry. Combined, these power players deceive us, teach us to eat the wrong things, and get us hooked on profitable drugs that make us fat and unhealthy. In Roman times, people ate naturally and got plenty of exercise through work. Thus, no obesity.
2006-10-19 19:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by nido_tr3s 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
For one, Romans really didnt have sugar or many things containing fat. And most Romans who were fat, showed a sign of wealth because you had money to buy food and stuff yourself.
2006-10-19 19:54:14 · answer #5 · answered by Bobby B 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hey, I couldn't word it any better than Nido_tr3s. Good answer! Although I would have added vomitoriums as a factor as well...there was that.
2006-10-20 00:50:37 · answer #6 · answered by aghostprofilebeingempty 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Romans would gorge themselves with food and then puke it up in the Vomitoriums
2006-10-19 19:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by chefzilla65 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They did not have fast food restaurants and even riding in a chariot required more exercise than riding in a car.
2006-10-19 19:54:52 · answer #8 · answered by IslandGal 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They didn't have as much unhealthy fattening food as we do now.
2006-10-19 21:40:34 · answer #9 · answered by Totoru 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
vomitariums?
2006-10-19 20:27:54 · answer #10 · answered by kimbridge 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋