Diet and disease during Europe's agricultural and industrial revolutions

Discusses how Europe's very low life expectancy was changed by the dietary revolution which came about as the result of the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Changes in diet banished two great scourges of the past, infant mortality and death among those in their late teens, twenties and...

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Published in:Nutrition and health (Berkhamsted) 2000, Vol.13 (4), p.185-198
Main Author: KNAPP, V. J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural development
Agriculture - history
Biological and medical sciences
Changes
Communicable Diseases - history
Communicable Diseases - mortality
Diet
Diet - history
Diseases
Europe
History of medicine
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology
Humans
Industrial revolutions
Industry - history
Life Expectancy
Medical sciences
Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement
Relationship
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Summary:Discusses how Europe's very low life expectancy was changed by the dietary revolution which came about as the result of the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Changes in diet banished two great scourges of the past, infant mortality and death among those in their late teens, twenties and early thirties.
ISSN:0260-1060
2047-945X