Exam 1 - Nutritional History

What types of food are available for ancient ancestors?

nuts, berries, vegetables, and small game from hunting

when was the first recorded nutritional experiment?

over 2000 years ago

Who was Daniel?

• served the King of Babylon

• performed the earliest experiment for nutrition

  • gave people vegetables rather than rich royalty food for 10 days

  • Daniel’s men in better health (fairer/fatter in flesh)

  • bad experiment to test nutrition

Who was Hippocrates?

• thought all people eat the same things = all appear the same

  • one nutrient theory

    • fills peoples’ needs

Who was the Father of Nutrition?

Antoine Lavoisier

What was Lavoisier known for?

• Father of Nutrition

• chemist for weight (calorimeter)

• studied heat produced by body/consumption of food

  • “life is a chemical process”

Who was Prout?

• had 3 principles

  • Saccharinous: substance (sugars)

  • Albuminous: proteins

  • Oily: fats

Who was Lind?

• discovered scurvy meant missing certain minerals in diet —> citrus/vitamin C

Who was Beaumont?

• discovered stomach was not a grinder

  • digestion is from digestive acids at different rates

  • fats digested slowly

Who was Babcock?

• development of milk fat test

  • determine the amount of fat in milk

• fed cows from only one plant, or multiple plants

• determined animals need B12 vitamin

What did Babcock discover with feeding cows?

• one nutrient cows

  • corn cows = more sleek than wheat cows

  • wheat cows = birthed dead calves

Who is Funk?

• discovered vitamine = vital amine

• determined necessary vitamins and essential nutrients to animal health