Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The evolution of food
- FOOS AS FUEL
- Evolution of civilizations and food for
human health.
- Hildegard of Bingen
"Eat cooked food
instead of raw".
- Antoine Lavoisier emphasized
the importance of food
composition.
- Jean Baptiste conducted equilibrium tests to
determine the composition of foodstuffs
based on feces.
- Experimentation
- MACRONUTRIENT
EXPLORATION
- Scientists discovered the primary elements in food
(carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen) and divided the
constituents of food (carbohydrates, fats, proteins and
water).
- Justus Von Liebing invented the kaliapparat to
analyze carbon in organic compounds.
- The physiologist Carl Von Voit and the chemist Max
Joseph Van Pettenkofer invented the chamber that
could measure carbon and nitrogen levels in order to
require protection of the body.
- Atwater built the calorimeter in a larger size and
adopted for the first time the word calorie as the unit
of energy of food.
- Solutions
- SMALLER AND
SMALLER
- Karsuhiko Yokoi demonstrated that beriberi
arises from malnutrition.
- The Polish biochemist Casimir Funk isolated the thiamine
that protects against beriberi and called it Anima Vital,
which was later transformed into a vitamin.
- Scottish physician James Lind
discovered that scurvy could be
prevented by eating citrus fruits.
- Mc Colum's experiments with albino rats led him to identify
the first fat-soluble vitamin, vitamin A, and later
demonstrated that it was Vitamin D (prevents rickets).
- Joseph Goldberger theorized that
pellagra had to do with nutrition.
- Biochemist Cornard Elvehjem realized that pellagra was
caused by a deficiency of niacin (Vitamin B3).