A Historical Look At Nutrition Science
Food and nutrition have been studied for centuries. Prior to the French Revolution scientists would write about their ideas as to how the food we ate was used in the body. However, not until the eighteenth century had these old ideas only began to undergo testing in scientific ways. In fact, one young scientist commented “Nutrition has often been the subject of conjectures and ingenious hypotheses but our actual knowledge is so insufficient that their only use is to try to satisfy our imagination. If we could arrive at some more exact facts they could well have applications in ...