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Protein and energy : a study of changing ideas in nutrition / Kenneth J. Carpenter.
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Carpenter, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John), 1923-2016
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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xiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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QP551 .C37 1994
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Proteins in human nutrition
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Proteins in human nutrition
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Energy metabolism
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Summary note
This book reviews the long-standing debate over the relative merits of a high-protein versus a low-protein diet. When protein (or "animal substance") was first discovered in vegetable foods, it was hailed as the only true nutritional principle. Justus Liebig, the leading German chemist of the mid-nineteenth century, believed that it provided the sole source of energy for muscular contraction. In contrast, health reformers argued that high intakes were overstimulating, leading to dissipation and decline. U.S. government publications in the 1890s recommended that working men receive 125 grams of protein per day, but work at Yale indicated that men maintained their strength on half that intake.
In the 1950s kwashiorkor, a disease of infants in many Third World countries, was judged to be the result of simple protein deficiency. The United Nations declared a world protein shortage. But the causes of kwashiorkor were reassessed, and projects to produce novel protein sources were eventually abandoned. Today there is again concern that overconsumption of protein in affluent societies may damage health. This book puts the protein controversy into a historical perspective that sheds light not only on the subject itself, but on the scientific process as well.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270) and index.
Contents
Nutritional science before the chemical revolution, 1614-1773
Nutrition in the light of the new chemistry, 1773-1839
Protein discovered and enthroned, 1838-1845
Things fall apart, 1846-1875
Vegetarian philosophies and Voit's standards, 1875-1893
Chittenden versus the U.S. establishment, 1883-1912
Vitamins and amino acids, 1910-1950
Protein deficiency as a Third World problem, 1933-1957
International efforts to produce high-protein supplements, 1955-1975
Reappraisals of the Third World problem, 1955-1990
Adult needs for amino acids: a new controversy, 1950-1992
In retrospect
Chemical structures of amino acids
Measurement of protein quality
Calculations of amino acid balance using an isotope label.
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ISBN
0521452090 ((hardback))
9780521452090 ((hardback))
LCCN
93032130
OCLC
28721530
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