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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Remember that the most important discoveries related to nutrition and human biology all happened in the second half of the twentieth century.
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My guess is the average 150 pound farmer or soldier from 1918 was healthier in terms of nutrition than the average 240 pound, Big Mac eating, Slushie-slurping, couch potato of the modern era.
Truth be told, the main thinking surrounding the fact that young adults were the big targets of 1918 is that a previous strain may have provided some immunity to the older generation, and due to the fact that so many young men were congregating in army barracks and camps and within industry in the cities and so the virus had many opportunities to infect others. That was the pattern in NA and Europe - it would be interesting to analyze the pattern in the less developed parts of the world which were also infected but which did not have the same congregations of young men and where and earlier strain may not have circulated.