Caloric Consumption in Industrializing Belgium
利用国家食物平衡表方法估算1812年和1846年比利时成年男性等效人口的热量摄入，发现人均热量摄入停滞，但消费不平等加剧，大量人口剩余热量极少。
This article provides estimates of Belgian food consumption in 1812 and 1846 using a national food balance sheet approach. These estimates are then converted into caloric intakes for adult male equivalents. Despite many accounts of an absolute pauperization of the Belgian population during this period, caloric consumption per equivalent adult male is shown to have merely stagnated between 1812 and 1846. There is indirect evidence that inequality in caloric consumption increased at the same time. Energy cost-accounting exercises reveal that the residual caloric quantity available for physical exertion was minimal for large sections of the population.