Listar por tema "nutritional transition"
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From Affluence to Processed Food: Evolution of Meat Consumption in Spain since the Second Half of the 20th Century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-05)We use Spain as a study case in order to analyse the evolution of meat consumption from the second half of the twentieth century until today. To do this, we built a database of meat consumption using all possible sources: ... -
Nutritional transitions and the food system: expensive milk, selective lactophiles and diet change in Spain, 1950-65
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-12)Why were products such as meat or milk relatively unimportant in the diet of European Mediterranean populations up until the 1960s? Conventional wisdom has it that this was a consequence of the environmental and macroeconomic ... -
Poor but tall. The height premium in the Canary Islands at the beginning of nutritional transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-09)This article explores the beginnings of the nutritional transition in relation to height in male populations of the Canary Islands. With military recruitment data for the cohorts of 1860 and 1915, it shows the insular ...