{"id":60067,"date":"2020-03-11T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=60067"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:22:33","slug":"lead-romans-killer","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/lead-romans-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead &#8211; Romans killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman women lubricated their faces with lead paste, which whitened their skin (pallor was extremely fashionable). <b>Lead<\/b> has often been used as a <b>sweetener and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/eating-habits-of-romans\/\">food<\/a> preservative<\/b>. It is believed that using a large amount of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/defrutum-and-lead-problems\/\">defrutum<\/a><\/em> (sweet wine) badly affected the health of the Romans. However, it should be mentioned that in ancient times no one knew about the harmful meaning of this element. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lead is very harmful to the human body and its excess can lead to poisoning, called &#8220;lead poisoning&#8221;. The effects of taking lead are tragic &#8211; brain disorders, insomnia, anorexia, blurred vision and damage to internal organs of the body (liver and kidneys).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a <b>jar of Roman face cream<\/b> was found in London in 2004. It is a mixture of animal fat, flour and tin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40005,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-60067","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/60067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/60067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=60067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}