Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Blog Mirror: A Hundred Years Ago; Calories Used Per Hour by Weight and Activity Level

Once again, A Hundred Years Ago gives us a fascinating look at a topic that we don't really expect to come up a century ago, particularly in the form which it does here:

Calories Used Per Hour by Weight and Activity Level


We would guess that a century ago there's be any sort of calorie counting.  As we've noted here before, the caloric requirements of simply getting through a day were quite a bit higher a century ago than they are now.  Likewise, the labor of simply maintaining a household was grossly more extensive than it is currently.

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