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Name a span of time in which there wasn't war, starvation, or economic reasons that would have produced any emaciated set of people.

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Of course most eras have famine victims, once-in-a-century famines happen more or less every century after all. But treating those famine victims as representatives of a normal physique for that era would be foolish, in any era.