LESSON 3: HISTORY OF NUTRITION

Question 1

Four eras in the history of nutrition as a science

Answer 1

1. Naturalistic era (400 B.C. to 1750 A.D.)
2. Chemical Analytical era (1750-1900)
3. Biological era (1900-1955)
4. Cellular or molecular era (1955-1980)

Question 2

vague ideas about taboos, magical power or medicinal value of food

Answer 2

Naturalistic Era (400 B.C.-A.D. 1750)

Question 3

• “Father of Medicine”
• the first physician to show interest in nutrition
• considered food as one universal nutrient in the discussion of food, health and disease

Answer 3

Hippocrates

Question 4

concluded that failure to gain weight is caused by insensible perspiration

Answer 4

Sanctorius

Question 5

showed interest in circulation and digestion which led to the study of nutrition

Answer 5

Harvey and Spallanzani

Question 6

• conducted first controlled nutrition experiment to find cure for scurvy

Answer 6

LIND

Question 7

• Father of Nutrition
• studied the way we use food as energy
• the first to study the relationship between heat production and oxygen use in the body
• Chemical studies were conducted which led to discoveries of oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen

Answer 7

Lavoisier

Question 8

Chemical studies were conducted which led to discoveries of oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen

Answer 8

Chemical-Analytical Era (1750-1900)

Question 9

produced synthetic milk of C,P,F in proportions found in cow’s milk

Answer 9

Alexander Dumas

Question 10

• discoveries of factors with vitamin-like properties, which were identified as essential elements of the human diet and others for various aspects of animals
• Relationship between nutrients and biological roles and determination of human dietary
  requirements
• Role of nutrition education on the improvement of nutritional status

Answer 10

Biological Era (1900-1955)

Question 11

coined the term “vitamin”

Answer 11

Casimir Funk:

Question 12

(IUNS) MEANING

Answer 12

International Union of Nutritional Sciences

Question 13

reduced infant mortality rate

Answer 13

Tiki-tiki extracts

Question 14

What period is studies done by American & foreign scientists aided by Filipino workers

Answer 14

First period

Question 15

NRC - 1932

Answer 15

– National Research Council

Question 16

(Father of Nutrition in the Philippines) – first RDA

Answer 16

Francisco O. Santos

Question 17

niacin and riboflavin

Answer 17

Revised RDA in 1947

Question 18

What period that nutrition agencies & councils which worked on organized activities in nutrition and food research & the coordination of activities of the government & private agencies

Answer 18

Third Period

Question 19

(PIN) in 1947

Answer 19

PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION

Question 20

Dr. Juan Salcedo enriched rice for beri-beri stricken
patients

Answer 20

RA 832 Rice Enrichment Law

Question 21

First board exam for dietitians

Answer 21

1961

Question 22

all nutrition graduates take the licensure
exam (RND)

Answer 22

1977 Nutrition Dietetics Decree PD 1286

Question 23

(NCCFN)

Answer 23

National Coordinating Council on Foods and Nutrition

Question 24

PPAN

Answer 24

PHILIPPINE ACTION FOR NUTRITION

Question 25

Nutrition Guidelines for Filipinos

Answer 25

FNRI –