Remarkable to learn that rationing from 1940 to 1954 actually improved the diets of many poorer people. Infant mortality rates declined and the average age at which people died from natural causes increased.
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Those having experienced starvation in 40s are older than middle aged and elderly but it is those people born decades later when the British people "never had it so good" they learned how to eat USA style having fridges instead of larders.
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My father, who had been a POW of the Japanese nearly starved to death in Formosa (now Taiwan) died of a heart attack aged 64. Yes,the stress of the war was probably a contributing factor. He died in 1977.
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You and your knowledge. You're spoiling all the happy thoughts of people that didn't experience them. Blitz, rationing, Dunkirk etc.
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They survived the Blitz and died of heart attacks in huge numbers decades later. Crisis doesn't toughen us up. It just injures us.
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Major stresses on the home front, too, eg shipyard workers on massive overtime. Or my grandfather, medical exemption but still looking after the stores of a Home Guard battalion in addition to a full time job - taken by a heart attack at 48
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Terrible and part of war time stress. Studies in Japan show heart attacks surge a few days after major earthquakes. Sorry to hear it.
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