Henry VIII: Victim of sugar/white flour? Looks like it!
I just found a great video about Henri VIII’s terrifying 5000 calorie-a-day-diet.
Aside from eating an insane amount of food overall, he also, as royalty did in that day, ate insane amounts of white bread and drank sugared wine. No wonder the guy was so fat.
(The other part of his liquid intake comprised of ale, which of course isn’t a very healthy way to go, either.)
Henry VIII also didn’t eat vegetables: the Tudor family didn’t go for that kind of thing, believing they were indigestible.
If Henry VIII had cut out the sugar and white flour and had eaten that nasty peasant food called “vegetables” instead, he probably wouldn’t have been able to stuff himself like he did. Sugar/white flour tends to mess up your appetite, making you feel hungry when you shouldn’t. And not only does it mess up your appetite, it just plain messes you up.