Arbeitspapier

Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories: Socioeconomic Status and Diets

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the decrease coincides with economic development. White life expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South consumed the most calories per day, while Northeastern urban whites consumed the least.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4886

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health and Economic Development
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
Thema
nineteenth century US diets
physical activity
nutrition

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Carson, Scott A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Carson, Scott A.
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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