Newspaper- Ancient Rome

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Friday 23rd of October 2015

Vol XCIII, No. 311 Ancient Rome edition

Traditional Food

Ancient Rome- Health & Well being

Public Baths

Romans had three meals a day. They had a small breakfast that normally consisted of bread, cheese & fruit. The main meal was eaten in the afternoon & evening, when Rome was busy selling spicy pies, sausages and many types of stews that consisted of meats & spices. Traditionally at Roman banquets the guests were served 600 ostrich brains and peas mixed with golden leaves. Mealtimes were mainly messy because the tradition was to eat with your fingers and it was normal for Romans to make themselves very sick so they could fit more food in. Some Romans had farms were they sold their produce to the local markets and kept their produce to feed their family's and some people sold their produce to the rich people in Rome

Romans cleaned themselves by going to the public baths or spa's and sauna's if they didn't have a bath at home which in most cases they didn't because only the rich could afford cleaning services in their house. In the public baths slaves (people who have committed crimes in Rome or in other countries) poured oil on the people in the baths and scraped it off with something called a Strigil which is a metal tool that scrapes of the oil of your body. The oil that they used acted like modern day soap even though it was a liquid. The other tool they used was a pumice stone. slaves heated the bath rooms from below and it was an extremely hard job to do because below the rooms was very hot. Some people preferred to go to the spa's and sauna's as they were more relaxing and luxurious but you had to pay a small fee.

Hair & Makeup for Roman Women

eyebrows and eyelashes with soot or dirt and painted their lips and cheeks with red plant dye. They often complimented their hair bye wearing big dangling real gold earring with lots of expensive coloured jewels.

Roman women washed their hair with honey and organic and natural paste normally made from goats milk which is quite similar to how we wash our hair now

Looking good was very important to Roman Women. Wealthy women often devoted several hours a day to their hair and makeup. Roman hairstyles could be very elaborate and many women wore hairpieces or wigs. It was very fashionable for women to look pale, so servants/ slaves applied a paste of powdered chalk to their mistress's face and arms and sometimes they even went to the extent of applying it to their legs. They darkened their

They didn't look quite as good as these teeth!!!!!

Roman Hygiene- Medicine

Dental Health

Roman Medicine

Teeth

When did Rome introduce Health Resources?

"How did Romans look after there teeth?" you may ask, well the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians and Indians brushed their teeth a similar way we do it today. They constructed a tooth brush of twigs and leaves and brushed their teeth with organic and natural ingredients normally made up of crushed vegetables or Goats milk paste.

The Romans input was mainly concerned with public health schemes but poor hygiene by Romans by Rome's people was a constant source of bad diseases. Some of the things they treated people with was unwashed wool, honey, vinegar, egg yolk, ash, celery was often very helpful in most cases, poppy juice, wine and liver was often used for the treatment of the eye. Rather than spending money on a doctor Romans spent their money on keeping fit. Some some cases of illness was from bad filtering of water that the people had drunk.

Do you think Rome was one of the most popular cities that

was most interested in Health and well-being?

The Romans introduced and developed the first ever system of public health. Romans believed in personal health and hygiene. The Aqueducts contributed to Rome's health and hygiene by supplying them with the fresh and clean water that traveled through through the Aqueducts and into the popular spas, pools, baths, and fountainsin Rome where the slaves worked very hard under ground maintaining the heat of the water. Some people had chamber pots in their home that was connected to the drainage system from the cleverly designed Aqueducts that Ran through Rome.

Yes I think Rome was very interested in health and well being. Everybody in Rome's population wanted to be clean, be happy with their appearance and keep healthy so they built spa's, sauna's, public baths, lavatory's and bath houses for the soldiers/ military to use. They made the emperors that built them very popular with Rome's people. They also took great interest in how they looked, staying fit and keeping healthy and clean

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