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Review of the Literature, 1949-1950

GRACE A. GOLDSMITH, M.D.; JANIS GIBBENS, M.S.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;88(1):93-131.

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INVESTIGATION in the field of nutrition in recent years has been directed toward elucidation of the role of essential nutrients in metabolic processes, exploration of nutrient interrelationships and evaluation of the importance of nutrition in diseases which are primarily non-nutritional in origin or in which etiological relationships to nutrition are uncertain. At the same time, search has been continued for additional chemical substances that may be dietary essentials, and specific syndromes of nutritional deficiency have been more accurately delineated.

The tremendous volume of nutrition research prohibits complete review of all recent contributions. Accordingly, attention will be directed to those subjects which appear to be of particular interest and importance to the clinician from either a theoretical or a practical standpoint.

PROTEIN NUTRITION

Protein Requirement and Metabolism.

—Protein metabolism has been a field of paramount interest, and several good reviews of current knowledge of this subject have appeard.¹ One of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW ORLEANS

From the Division of Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Dr. Goldsmith is Professor of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine.

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