“Poor people do live longer though. Didn’t medieval kings suffer from all sorts of diseases from their fatty, excessive diet? Meanwhile the peasants were in better health eating a less rich diet?”
This is wild, completely unsourced speculation. Really, it even defies common sense. Far more people in history have died due to starvation and famine than have ever died from a “fatty, excessive diet.”
And even if you demonstrated that kings of a time suffered from diseases or had a shorter life than the average peasant of the same time and place, why would you automatically assume that a better diet was the cause? There could be untold number of reasons for any sort of disease, not to mention that kings and rulers would be more frequent targets of poisonings and assassination attempts. These types of attacks could obviously lead to a shorter life, and compromised health, as well.
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