When William the Conqueror reached his fortieth year on the throne, he became very concerned about his weight. Being overweight presented real problems for his riding skills and swordsmanship. For a king in the age of chivalry this was real disaster. Apparently his solution was to go on a very strict diet giving up food completely and drinking lots of wine instead! It is never an easy thing to refuse your King a drink! Anyway this was all very well until one day he was so inebriated that he fell from his horse and sadly died from the complications which set in later. He was only 59 years old.
Current guidelines say that the average working adult should consume no more than 720g of food per day and drink around 3 litres of water. The food ideally should consist predominantly of carbohydrates (530g), proteins (130g) and fats (60g). If William had been aware of this he might have lived a lot longer and his horse might have suffered a lot less!
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