Nutrition
Nutrition science identified the vitamins, ended endemic deficiency diseases and then turned to the harder question of diet and chronic illness. The debates in this field are live, and the profiles note where evidence is strong and where it is disputed.
9 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 4 countries
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Weston A. Price
1870 – 1948Dentist whose global survey of traditional diets tied refined food to physical degeneration.
Canada·Nutrition · Medicine
Roger J. Williams
1893 – 1988Discovered pantothenic acid and argued for biochemical individuality — the idea beneath functional medicine.
United States·Nutrition · Chemistry · Functional Medicine
Ancel Keys
1904 – 2004The Seven Countries Study put diet at the centre of cardiovascular prevention.
United States·Nutrition · Public Health