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One hundred years ago, a hard working man ate 6,000 to 6,500 calories and hard working women ate 4,000 to 4,500 calories per day. Today an average woman needs 2,000 to 2,500 calories and an average man needs 2,500 to 2,800 calories.

Excerpted from page 174 of ‘Death by Supermarket’ by Nancy Deville