nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …

the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history …

highly correlated with the series on e10 and other measures of mortality. It is estimated that improvements in nutritional … status may have accounted for as much as four-tenths of the secular decline in mortality rates, but nearly all of this effect … was concentrated in the reduction of infant mortality. Additional results include an assessment of the effect of toxic …

e0(10) and other measures of mortality. Third, these correlations are used to estimate the contribution of improvements … in nutritional status (not diet alone but diet net of prior claims) to the decline in mortality in Europe and America … since 1800. Improvements in nutritional status may have accounted for as ifiuch as four tenths of the decline in mortality …