Food, nutrition and public health in contemporary Spain, 1900-–1936

Unravelling the nutritional transition in Spain: From meat shortages to excess (1958–1990)

“…In addition to its own mass consumption, the dominant nutritional argument in Spain may have had some importance in this decline. In the first third of the 20th century, the low consumption of meat and milk by the Spanish population (on average) was a public health problem due to the importance given to the consumption of high-biological value proteins (Bernabeu-Mestre et al, 2008). However, in the early second half of the 20th century, the dominant nutritional discourse was different in the case of meat.…”

Uncovering Inequalities in Food Accessibility between Koreans and Japanese in 1930s Colonial Seoul Using GIS and Open-Source Transport Analytics Tools

“…Food accessibility can be a useful lens through which to infer and understand the health status of people in the past. In fact, poor access to food in the early 20 th century is considered a direct primary cause of serious diseases and mortality, due to the lack of proper hygienic conditions and medical treatments [32][33][34]. However, there have been few efforts to quantify food accessibility and to see how food accessibility was heterogeneous among population groups with different social statuses in cities in an early modern era.…”