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In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the gap in living standards, morbidity and mortality between rich and poor. The measurement of height is a means of the direct assessment of nutritional status. This important and innovative study uses a wealth of military and philanthropic data to establish the changing heights of Britons during the period of industrialization, and thus establishes an important dimension to the long-standing controversy about living standards during the Industrial Revolution. Sophisticated quantitative analysis enables the authors to present some striking conclusions about the actual physical status of the British people during a period of profound social and economic upheaval, and Height, Health and History will provide an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.

Nutrition --- Diet --- Human growth --- NUTRITIONAL STATUS --- Body Height --- Social Conditions --- History --- trends --- Body Height. --- Nutritional Status. --- 61 <09> --- -Human growth --- -Nutrition --- -Alimentation --- Food --- Health --- Physiology --- Dietetics --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Human body --- Developmental biology --- Growth --- Nutrition Status --- Status, Nutrition --- Status, Nutritional --- Body Heights --- Height, Body --- Heights, Body --- trends. --- Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- Health aspects --- Great Britain. --- Isle of Man --- United Kingdom --- History. --- United Kingdom. --- Great Britain --- 61 <09> Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- -trends. --- -61 <09> Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- Alimentation --- Nutritional Status --- 61 <09> History of medicine --- History of medicine --- Arts and Humanities --- Nutrition - Great Britain - History --- Diet - Great Britain - History --- Human growth - Great Britain - History --- Body Height - Great Britain --- Social Conditions - trends - Great Britain