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I just read in "the lives and opinions of eminent philosophers" written ca 300 AD that Pythagoras (yes that Pythagoras) was the inventor of the "meat for athle

I just read in "the lives and opinions of eminent philosophers" written ca 300 AD that Pythagoras (yes that Pythagoras) was the inventor of the "meat for athletes" diet. He also won a gold medal in the Olympics for boxing so he was not just an ivory tower speculator. Meat in those days was regarded as an expensive luxury.

maximumoverload 12y ago
>He also won a gold medal in the Olympics for boxing I heard that's mostly a myth edit: there was apparently different Pythagoras, who was a boxer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(boxer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(boxer)
pyre 12y ago
This post seems unrelated to my comment. Did you mean to respond to a different comment? > He also won a gold medal in the Olympics for boxing so he was not just an ivory tower speculator. If you are attempting to respond directly to my comment, then I don't see how being an athlete himself (even though that fact seems debatable) somehow means that his ideas aren't coloured in some way by his preconceptions. This has nothing to do with being in an 'ivory tower,' but instead to do with mapping the evidence to pre-conceived ideas and then calling it a day without questioning those idea themselves. > Meat in those days was regarded as an expensive luxury. It was an expensive luxury. I don't think that anyone is debating this. Even in China you can map the increase in consumption of meat to the rise of the Chinese middle-class in recent years.