... were None the less general rules do become apparent. For example, the distribution of the various types of foodstuffs reveals the diversity or, much more often, the monotony of diet. Monotony is obvious whenever the share of carbohydrates (cereals in nearly every case) is far in excess of 60% of intake expressed in calories. The share of meat, fish and dairy products is then ... itself with the increase in population in Europe up to at least the middle of the nineteenth century.7 Then and only then, scientific stock-raising and massive arrivals of meat from America, salted and then froz...

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