This chapter reviews the literature and the main findings obtained by historiography in
recent decades with respect to the study of biological standards of living, anthropometry and …

Unequal access to food is one of the main issues in nutritional history, but scarcity of sources
has hampered the quantification of this phenomenon. This study uses hospital diets to …

From the second half of the twentieth century, two events characterised western societies
from a nutritional point of view. The first was the culmination of the modern nutritional …

Historic constructions of family budgets have been scarce in Spain. In fact, the first national
Family Budget Survey was carried out in 1958. In this article, we present new evidence of …

The nutritional transition brought about profound changes in the nutrition of the European
population in the 19th and 20th centuries. The predominant consumption of cereals gave …

Introducción: los estudios sobre la transición nutricional española (TNE) hasta mediados del
siglo XX se basaban en estimaciones indirectas y muy agregadas del consumo que no …

This article examines the effects of industrialization on overall well-being in Alcoy, a classic
industrial town during Spanish economic modernization, by developing a utility-based …

Armando Palacio Valdés characterised the Asturian village of Sama de Langreo in his novel
La aldea perdida (1903), as an unusual example of an industrialised population entity …

Introducción. La alimentación en universitarios excede la necesidad biológica y pasa a ser
un acto generador de placeres, con un claro reflejo en el estado nutricional, la complexión …

This chapter explores the beginning 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 …