ANSC 221 - Final Exam Study Guide/Review.

Exam 1 Material: Nutritional History: Foods available to ancient ancestors: nuts, berries, vegetables and small game with the advent of hunting 1 st Recorded Nutritional Experiment: Daniel from the Bible Greek nutritional thinking: Hippocrates 1 nutrient theory -Since everyone eats the same food, there must be one nutrient present in all foods that is responsible for sustained life Father of Nutrition: Antoine Lavoisier -“Life is a chemical process” 3 Proximate Principles: Prout -Saccharinous, Albuminous, and oily Lind was responsible for the health of the Limeys (the British Navy) because of his experiment of giving fresh fruit to sailors with scurvy -The British were called the Limeys due to them eating limes to get Vitamin C to protect against scurvy -Lind did not fully understand his experiment or the significance of his results William Beaumont and Alexio St. Martin: Army doctor made observations of fistula in stomach of Alexio -discovered that the stomach is not a grinder and that food is digested all at the same time but at different rates -Also, discovered that the stomach has digestive juices that aid in digestion Stephen Babcock: the single plant feeding experiment -Experiment led to simpler diets in commercially important species, discovery of vitamins and the Golden Age of nutrition