Experiments that changed nutritional thinking

Journal of Nutrition, The, May, 1997 by Carpenter, Kenneth J; Harper, Alfred E; Olson, Robert E

Symposium: Experiments That Changed Nutritional Thinking

Experiments That Changed Nutritional Thinking1

Kenneth J. Carpenter,2 Alfred E. Harper* and Robert E. Olson ^

Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA; *University of Wisconsin, Madi son, WI; and ^ University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

The objective of this two-part symposium, begun in 1995 and continued in 1996, was to describe some of the discoveries made during the past 150 years that changed the direction of thinking in nutrition. These discoveries all illustrate th e strength of the scientific method as a process for gaining reliable knowledge of the natural world.

Philosopher of science Karl Popper proposed that the scientific method begins, not...

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