I can say that the book is engaging and helpful to me in understanding the Spartan role in classical Greek history.I was prepared for a dry, textbook approach and this is much better than that. I recommend it as an advanced book but I am anything but advanced in this area of history.
Iron for your blood, fiber for roughage, vitamin A for your eyes, potassium for your heart, B-vitamins, tannins - these are just a few of the many nutrients in dates, making them one of the healthiest foods in the world.
Whereas most fruits are high in vitamin C and get the majority of their weight from water, dates provide little or no vitamin C and as much as 70 percent of their weight comes from sugar. The large, semi-soft Medjool date is moist, meaty, exceptionally sweet and widely available in the United States.