Gladiators were vegetarians according to recent findings.
They predominantly ate carbs’ (barely) specifically to gain ‘fat’ weight to protect them from killing blows in the arena! Interesting considering our image of gladiators is one more in tune with the film 300. They also drank a calcium drink to strengthen their bones because their diets lacked this mineral! Now how did they know that? Looks like supplement & nutritional knowledge goes much further back than we thought!
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