Word: nutritionists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certain that F.A.O. would at least be an advisory and educational body, possibly something more. Said F.A.O.'s new director-general, 65-year-old Sir John Boyd Orr, Scottish nutritionist and farmer: "If we succeed in reaching all our objectives it will be a miracle. But the days of miracles are not passed...
...healthy people need vitamin pills? Many a doctor and nutritionist has loudly asserted that they do not. Last week the California Institute of Technology offered evidence that extra vitamins are good for almost anybody...
...wrote in his latest excoriation, "appears to be the only mammal which habitually consumes milk after the period of lactation has ceased." To prove milk unnecessary, Dr. Soper cited Nutritionist Elmer Verner McCollum, discoverer of several vitamins and advocate of a quart of milk a day. McCollum described inhabitants of the wet regions in southern Asia who live on a diet of rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes and many other vegetables. They are better developed physically, have more capacity for work and endurance, escape the skeletal defects (rickets) of childhood and have the finest teeth of any race in the world...
...campaign to add iron and vitamins to white bread has bogged down. So declared Dr. William Henry Sebrell Jr., famed nutritionist of the U.S. Public Health Service, last week. Year ago, most U.S. bakers agreed to enrich their white bread with: i) thiamin (the "morale vitamin" B 1 ; 2) nicotinic acid (to prevent pellagra); 3) iron. Although enrichment accounts for only 3% of baking costs, less than a third of U.S. bread is now vitaminized. Reason: public apathy, bakers' indifference. One large baking company in Washington, D.C., among the first to fortify its flour, has now gone back...
...experts on the medical and psychological problems of old age. First bang-up work on geriatrics ever published, the book contains an introduction by 79-year-old John Dewey, lengthy articles by such famous scientists as Physiologists Anton Julius Carlson of University of Chicago, Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard, Nutritionist Clive Maine McCay of Cornell, Anthropologist Clark Wissler of Yale...