Contents

The Advancement of Nutrition (1982)

To The Reader v

Foreword and Abstract v

I. Scientific Nutrition Begins with the Nutritional Alphabet

II. Advanced Nutrition Recognizes That People Can and Do Live (Perhaps with "Average Health") Even When Their Nutrition Is Poor. Always Nutrition Can Be Improved, and This Improvement Is the Chief Objective of Nutritional Study. 3

III. Nutrition Must Be for Real People. "Statistical Man" Is of Little or No Interest. 5

IV. Nutrients Work Together As in a Chain or Team. 9

V. The Extent to Which Nutritional Manipulation Can Prevent Disease Is an Unknown Quantity Which Demands Intensive Exploration. 10

VI. Biological and Biochemical Insights Developed in Recent Decades Teach Us Several Vital Lessons, the Most Important of Which Is That Nutritional Phenomena, Always Related to Health, Merit Careful Scientific Study on the Part of Medical Scientists. 11

VII. Cellular Nutrition Is Basic--It Is What Nutrition Is All About. 14

VIII. The Emphasis on Cellular Nutrition Strengthens the Rationale With Respect to the Importance of Exercise in Promoting Good Health. 16

IX. People Always Have Some Body Wisdoms. This Helps Them in the Selection of Food and in Determining How Much Food They Should Eat 17

X. Hormonal-Nutritional Interrelationships Need Exploration. 18

XI. Rational Drug Therapy Should Include the Recognition of Drug-Nutrient Interrelationships. 19

XII. The Widespread Occurrence of Numerous Specific Toxicants in Diverse Natural Foods, Recognized First About 15 Years Ago, Is a Fact of Life Which Scientific Nutrition Must Recognize. 20

XIII. In Our Industrialized World, Harmful Contaminants to Our Nutritional Environments Must Increasingly Be Contended With. They Are Unfortunately a Part of the Nutritional Picture. Excellent Nutrition Probably Always Helps One to Resist Harmful Contaminants 21

XIV. The Study of Heredity, Carcinogenesis, Molecular Biology and Tissue Culture Cannot Develop Adequately Leaving Out Nutritional Considerations. 22

XV. We Are Badly in Need of a More Penetrating and More Expert Classification of the Known Nutrients. 23

XVI. Some of the Questions Which Progressive Nutritional Science Will Want to Ask and Answer. 24

XVII. Can Medical Scientists and Medical Schools Become Genuinely Sympathetic to Nutritional Advancement? 26

XVIII. Overall Future Prospects for Nutritional Advancement. 29