Abstract: Modern nutritional science advanced by demonstrating that the great variety of foodstuffs eaten by man and animals contained measurable amounts of protein, fats, carbohydrate, water, minerals and vitamins. This demonstration converted chaos to order, aided by the recognition of diseases directly resulting from deficiency or excess of each of the nutrients identified. The culmination of this science may have been the finding that the laboratory rat and the chick could be made to grow, stay healthy and reproduce when fed a highly purified mixture of these nutrients. Dietary allowances of each nutrient were recommended for animals, including man, at levels . . .
Publication Year: 1977
Publication Date: 1977-10-13
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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