[morsch]

It's a fun article, but hardly a scientific analysis of the diet back then. It's all anecdotes and no numbers.

Though such numbers do seem to exist for 20th century USA (Android won't render the xls, though): https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-per...

[MichaelDickens]

I downloaded the dairy sheet out of curiosity. A few things I noticed:

- Today, people drink as much milk per capita today as they did in the 30's. - Milk consumption per capita peaked in the 50's, when people were drinking roughly twice as much as today. - Milk consumption has been more or less linearly declining since the 50's.