Date of Award:
5-1952
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences
Department name when degree awarded
Foods and Nutrition
Committee Chair(s)
Ethelwyn B. Wilcox
Committee
Ethelwyn B. Wilcox
Abstract
Diseases which in the sixteenth century were found to be related to a deficiency of some substance in the natural foods consumed in the diet were later known as deficiency diseases. As early as 1881, Lunin found that rats could not live on a purified diet of carbohydrate, fat, protein and minerals, but could exist on a diet supplemented with certain natural foods. These findings were found to be in agreement with records of early descriptions of deficiency diseases. Scurvy was recognized very early in voyages made across oceans where ships had no means of being re-provisioned. Progress was very slow in determining the cause of this dread sickness.
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Recommended Citation
Wood, Patricia, "Ascorbic Acid and Glucose: Their Relation to Rheumatic Fever in Utah, and Their Relation to Incidence of Dental Caries in Idaho" (1952). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 4796.
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