Today I want to talk about: What is Nutrition. Let me tell you what nutrition is not. Nutrition is not an opinion, yet many people have an idea about nutrition. Everybody eats, so everybody seems to have an opinion.
Nutrition is a science. It’s built upon many other sciences, including Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, and even Biochemistry. Yes, nutrition is Biochemistry, the study of the chemical processes within the body. Nutrition is a very young science. The first vitamins weren’t discovered until the early 1900s. The first controlled experiment was back in 1747, and during this month, we’re going to learn about that. It found the cure for Scurvy, but it wasn’t until nearly two hundred years later that actual vitamin C in the early 1930s or absorbed acid was found.