rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition … expectancy was not likely due to improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per … day than workers in other occupations. Black diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and rural blacks in the …

mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large … substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although …

malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … the observed malnutrition and mortality outcomes. Secondly, to address unobserved but correlated factors, we exploit … the observed sound anthropometric outcomes around Lake Victoria. In contrast, high mortality rates rest upon an adverse …