The idea that better nutrition can accelerate economic growth is not a new one. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert William Fogel claimed in The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death (2004) that “the combined effect of the increase in dietary energy available for work, and of the increased human efficiency in transforming dietary energy into work output, appears to account for about 50 per cent of the British economic growth since 1790.”
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:57:15 +0000