NUTR 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: List Of File Formats, Myoglobin, Santorio Santorio

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Nutrition
• Course: NUTR 3210
• Professor: Justine Tishinsky

Document Summary

5th century:: the earliest known records of our understanding of nutrients in the western world come from. 500 bc: anaxagoras reasoned that food became the human body and must therefore contain. 460 bc: hippocrates recognized that medical examination should focus on the individual, many of his ideas centred in nutrition. Often, people refer to his quote, our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food ! 17th century:: early quantitative approaches and empirical methods that alluded to the concept of metabolism. 1620s: santoria sanctorius found that the sum total of visible excrement was less than the amount of substance ingested! 18th century: : recognition through scienti c inquiry, that some nutrients are essential, and that the dietary supplementation can improve the health of individuals with particular diseases. 1753: james lind proves that citrus fruits can prevent scurvy !