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poliphiloAccording to Pip Patrick (article in Current Archaeology 198) the stereotype of the fat, jolly monk has some basis in fact.
Pip did a study of skeletons from a number of medieval cemetries in London and found that monks "were five times as likely to develop some form of obesity-related joint disease as their secular counterparts."
Nice to find science (for once) confirming rather that debunking myth.
Pip did a study of skeletons from a number of medieval cemetries in London and found that monks "were five times as likely to develop some form of obesity-related joint disease as their secular counterparts."
Nice to find science (for once) confirming rather that debunking myth.
