TY  - JOUR
T1  - Verständliche wissenschaft. band xxxix: Nahrung und ernährung: altbekanntes und neuerforschtes vom essen
Y1  - 1939/07/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800280069034
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 257
EP  - 257
VL  - 113
IS  - 3
N2  - Although it is an elementary account of the old and new knowledge of foods, this book contains a tremendous amount of information. There is a brief presentation of the principles of nutrition followed by a discussion of the various components of the diet. The book contains a brief discussion of foods and an account in a philosophic vein of the changing diet in Germany during the last hundred years. The brevity of the book is accomplished in part by an adaptation of the question and answer style of discussion, many of the paragraphs consisting of a question and the answer in the light of existing knowledge. The numerous illustrations provide interesting comparisons of the composition of different types of food and other items. The charts are made more forceful by illustrations. Thus in the chart showing the variation of the vitamin A content of cow's milk there is placed along
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800280069034
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800280069034
ER  -