Call me cynically suspicious, but reading the related articles makes me think this is intended to indirectly support the supplement industry.<p>&quot;<i>[To provide remedies for the appalling state of our health,] Look, instead, to the food and beverage industries, and to a lesser extent the supplement companies, who may well step up to the plate with better designed foods and nutritional programmes once the currently profoundly counter-productive regulatory system has been re-drafted.</i>&quot;[1]<p>Key parts of the argument seem to be that the Victorian diet was better, not necessarily because of the types of foods, but because of the large amounts of micro- and phytonutritional elements ingested. It&#x27;s not possible to make use of the massive caloric intake today, so...pills.<p>[1] How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died. Paul Clayton and Judith Rowbotham. [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2672390&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2672390&#x2F;</a>].