expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …

Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic … current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution and throughout the 19th century, white and black average weights … infectious disease rates were high, Southern current net nutrition was better than elsewhere within the US. …

Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern …

Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing … obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is fragile. Using the health capital development theory, this study … prevalence of obesity during teenage years. The main finding was that a 1% rise in the in-hospital breastfeeding initiation rate …