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Fellow at the Institute of Food , Brain and Behaviour , Oxford ; and Judith Rowbotham , a Visiting Research Fellow at Plymouth University . The mid-Victorian diet that Clayton and Rowbotham espouse the values of was fairly one-note , but had spectacular benefits . “ The Victorian urban poor consumed diets which were limited , but contained extremely high nutrient density ,” write Clayton and Rowbotham . “ Bread could be expensive but onions , watercress , cabbage , and fruit like apples and cherries were all cheap and did not need to be carefully budgeted
for . Beetroot was eaten all year round ; Jerusalem artichokes were often home-grown . Fish such as herrings and meat in some form ( scraps , chops and even joints ) were common too . All in all , a reversion to mid-Victorian nutritional values would significantly improve health expectancy today … the current pandemics of obesity and diabetes represent in many ways an acceleration of the ageing process . We need to go back to the future .” The population of the UK in the mid-Victorian era was about 30mn and , despite being at the height of the
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