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“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates realized that food impacts a person’s health, body and mind to help prevent illness as well as maintain wellness.
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Lind’s experiment fed one group of sailors salt water, one group vinegar, and one group limes. Those given limes didn’t develop scurvy. And although Vitamin C wasn’t discovered until the 1930s, this experiment changed the way physicians thought about food, creating a market for nutrition careers.
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The concept of metabolism, the transfer of food and oxygen into heat and water in the body, creating energy, was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier.
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the elements of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, were isolated and soon connected to health.
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Casimir Funk, coined the term “vitamins” as essential factors in the diet. E.V. McCollum,he found the first fat-soluble vitamin, Vitamin A.
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the Public Health Service began including dietitians in PHS Hospital staffs in 1919
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The first vitamin pills were marketed, and created a new industry around science-based health products
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The Dietary and Supplement Health and Education Act was approved by Congress.
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As nutrition and dietitian programs started to become more prevalent, nutrition careers and dietitian jobs became more popular. Traditionally, dietitians work in hospitals, schools, and prisons, and nutritionists more often work in private practice, in education and research, although there is some overlap between the two.
