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Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition - Carpenter, Kenneth, Dr.
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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. Leibig, 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 over-stimulating, leading to dissipation and decline. The subject came to ...

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Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition 1994, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780521452090

Hardcover