Height, Health and History Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980

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.Floud, Roderick is the author of 'Height, Health and History Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980' with ISBN 9780521303149 and ISBN 0521303141.