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Salud, trabajo y nutrición. Irlanda antes de la Hambruna*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2010

Cormac Ó Gráda
Cormac Ó Gráda
Affiliation:
University College, Dublín
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Abstract

On the eve of the Great Famine (1846–50) Irish incomes were low by west European standards. However, an analysis of Irish diets at the time suggests that poverty was mitigated by a calorific intake that exceeded that of early nineteenth-century England and France. The added physical requirements of farm work in Ireland were not commensurate. The impression of healthy food is corroborated by a comparative analysis of Irish and British heights in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Resumen

En vísperas de la Gran Hambruna (1846–50), los ingresos irlandeses eran bajos según los patrones europeos. Sin embargo, un análisis de las dietas en Irlanda nos sugiere que la pobreza se hallaba mitigada por una ingestión de calorías que sobrepasaba a las de Inglaterra y Francia en los inicios del siglo xix. Las demandas calóricas extras debidas al trabajo agrícola no explican esta desproporción. La impresión de una alimentación saludable queda corroborada por un análisis comparativo entre las estaturas irlandesas y británicas de finales del siglo xviii y principios del xix.

Type
Panoramas de Historia Económica
Information
Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , December 1993 , pp. 475 - 502
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Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1993

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