Great article. I've read a different figure for blockage deaths in Germany in WWI. After factoring in the notion that most deaths from malnutrition end with a d

Great article. I've read a different figure for blockage deaths in Germany in WWI. After factoring in the notion that most deaths from malnutrition end with a disease that healthy people could fight off, the figure was 11 million, believe it or not. In part because nutrition was badly understood (the shrewd Mikkel Hindhede aside), and many popular erzatz foods were unhealthy or not food at all. The same is true of Vietnam War American prisoners, they actually had longer lifespans than average (whereas the truly starved prisoners from WWII Hong Kong had much shorter lives.) This may in part because the Vietnamese prison did not include artificial light, however.