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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Wilbur Olin Atwater

Wilbur Olin Atwater was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism, and is considered the father of modern nutrition research and education. He is credited with developing the Atwater system, which laid the groundwork for nutrition science in the United States and inspired modern Olympic nutrition.

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. — © Wilbur Olin Atwater
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.
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