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Herodotus wrote "the Egyptians are from other causes also the most healthy of all men next after the Libyans", yet the Egyptians at that time seemed to suffer from malnutrition. Was malnutrition such a big occurrence around the world at that time, and why?

by /u/LeonInJapan in /r/AskHistorians

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