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Health and Food in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages, HUNGER IN…
Health and Food in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages
GRECO-ROMAN VERSUS CONTINENTAL BARBARIAN MODEL
THE CLASSICAL WORLD
The classical world, cradle of our civilization in every way, refers to classical greece. it was composed of theree elements of men: Citizens, commoners or metecos, Slaves
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERNITY
SANITARY REGIMES AND HYGIENE OF THE BODY
The changes of season and, within them, the variations of cold, heat, humidity etc. are main causes of the disease
The word Hygiene comes from the Greek term Hygieie name given to the goddess of health.
The transformation of the medieval world into the modern one occurred through the Renaissance, but the force that produced that colossal metamorphosis was not artistic creation but science.
Once science began, it began to generate knowledge about the reality that surrounds us and to which we belong.
Among the most frequent foods of the Greeks was the meat of domestic animals: Ox
ram Pork. The most important meal throughout the day for a Greek was breakfast and lunch.
.The Romans made a light breakfast and lunch, the main meal was dinner. ate products of the land:cereal vegetables legumes
goat and sheep's milk
HUNGER IN HISTORY
The subsistence crisis and the problems of malnutrition
Commensality and its social dimension
Food, identity and symbol
Those who have followed a diet for whatever reason: (Lose weight, gain weight, or control tension, cholesterol or diabetes), have felt at some point the temptation to eat what is least convenient for them.
The maintenance of a correct weight or the treatment of a disease through the most appropriate diet require that we know how to plan the feeding in the time beyond the immediate days.
The diet of each social group reflects their particular way of seeing themselves in the world, of the middle class or the light holiness of the upper classes in search of an immortal body.
Hunger, Disease and Death in Populations of Traditional Demographic Regime
Hunger has always existed, but starvation has managed to be restricted in terms of time and place. The cause of famine in the Middle Ages was not always the loss of harvest but the gerra was often the real reason for it.
Hunger is a condition of misery and suffering, a state of human degradation.
The problem of malnutrition can be very complex and factors that contribute to its occurrence in the individual or populations include
The way of life living conditions, lifestyle system
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