The Roman Army was not vegetarian, they did however remove animal foods from their diet a week or two before going into combat. The reason for this is obvious if you have ever done heavy manual work or exercise. It keeps the body in a state where you don't get the issues with lactic acid's in the system. If you have to fight hand to hand for days straight this keeps you alive. This is the reason's endurance athletes eat a high starch food diet. You note long distance endurance athletes have special packets they carry to keep their glycogen levels up with competing. When I was a long distance runner I used starch food, it carries you well. There was this keto moron who though he would prove something by eating a high fat diet and trying to run a marathon he failed.
Roman's knew they needed to eat meat however, the government had a food program were once a week the plebeians would be given meat since they couldn't afford such on their own. They would line up at the temples and this would be given out.
Note the nobility were noted for something in those days, they were physically much taller and bigger in build and they lived around twenty years longer then the average person. However a lot of them suffered aliments that are related to over eating animal foods. This is due to the status eating of their day. It was how they showed off their status by eating the food normal people didn't. This included chicken, this was the nobility food, chicken was expensive and you couldn't just eat them everyday unless you had the money.
The noble I mentioned cut back on the animal foods and ate more plants because he noted his friends kept getting sick and dying and he figured it was diet. The fellow who went to the village was the first medical general of America. He studied the Amerindian's who ate a high starch diet and some meat. And he noted they lived to be very old, and aged well and had excellent health. The men around fifty might get a streak of silver hair or a winkle on the brow and that was all. Same with the women. He noted the merchant rich of Boston ate nothing but animal products all the time. And being a medical doctor he understood the aliments he was treating them for was diet related. He changed his own diet and had good health.
Hitler was vegetarian in the sense he didn't eat meat. But he ate animal products such as dairy. Hitler might have also been eating eggs. And eggs are a meat based product.
Vegetarianism is also somewhat of a semantic debate. Vegetarianism is consider everything from just eating dairy, to eggs or chicken or fish. Its pointless. The reason the concept of dairy only became popular is because Gandhi who was a Hindu, came to study in England and studied the British Vegetarian Society. Being a Hindu he only ate dairy and plants as that is their religious diet. So he stated calling this vegetarianism and he was famous and he promoted this concept. The other Hindu teacher's who came west now had this new word to call the mainstream Hindu diet. A pure vegetarian is however, vegan by definition. The British Vegetarian Society that Gandhi took this term from was originally a vegan society and vegetarian was the original word that meant vegan.
However in India, the tantra path which is Kundalini yoga, they eat meat, and certain castes like the warrior caste also eat meat. Vaishnava's are from the Vash or merchant caste so they are vegetarian by caste. The Hare Krisna's being a Vaishnava religion promote vegetarianism. Were swami Vivekananda was not vegetarian due to the caste he was from. His ashram still does not demand vegetarianism either. Vivekananda's reason for this is the simple fact it deals with the awaking of kundalini energies.
Gear88 said:
Vegetarian(A la. Hitler/Romans) = A healthy Godlike form where even the Gods consume such food types in their diet.
You mentioned multiple times in the past in A-F and ProPhP forums, over the years. 75%-90% non-meat(particularly expressing at one point the lack of oils, nuts, seeds, and other parameters which people aren't eating aside from greens and colors) and 10%-25% meat. You also mentioned the Feudal Lord that went vegetarian after staying in a village and noticing a lot of old people and lived a long time compared to the Royalty at the time that consumed meat ad-nausium and died in their 30s-40s.-50s.
HP Shannon mentioned SOME COULD do 50/50 for meat/non-meat. Perhaps due to different system and having a more resistant system. And there are a few rare genetic freaks that MAY be able to do a full vegetarian focus 100% but really should incorporate some meat like fish or any meat just to avoid any stressing of the body. Sure your a genetic freak but that doesn't mean you should avoid meat/eggs.
But basically Roman Mediterranean diet for 75-90/10-25 percentage.
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