Henry VIII’s diet
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Have £400 lying around? Then try experiencing the ‘Henry VIII diet’ for a week. Copious amounts of bread, meats, sweet dishes and of course watered-down alcohol. Lovely! In this short video, the diet of Henry VIII is recreated in a modern day weekly supermarket shop. Historian Dr Lucy Worsley and medical doctor Catherine Hood also examine the possibility that Henry VIII suffered from type 2 diabetes Cool!
