[pct-l] Nutrition advice from the ancient Greeks

[Nathan Miller]

> "he could fatten his thighs as much as he pleased on whey"
> The Odyssey
> Homer

> When resupply means night swimming under an Athenian blockade, dragging your food behind you in a skin bag and capture is a death sentence, the Spartans chose bruised flaxseed mixed with honey.  This according to Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War. 

> You thought your resupply was tough.

> Not sure how this applies to thru hiking.

Easy:
1)  Whey protein should be an important part of your trail diet.
2)  Make plenty of flaxseed-and-honey hardtack for the trail.
3)  It's all there, all that stuff in the Odyssey--maelstroms, syrens, cyclops, all of it--it's all out there on the trail!

-Nate the Trail Zombie
Newberg, OR