In my opinion, the interesting thing about the article is not the diet, it is the claim that if you remove death during and shortly after childbirth, mid-Victor

In my opinion, the interesting thing about the article is not the diet, it is the claim that if you remove death during and shortly after childbirth, mid-Victorian era life expectancy was about the same as ours now. If true, that's a startling counterpoint to the prevailing narrative of modern medicine's triumph.