1919 - Nutrition

Nutrition

Diet evangelist Horace Fletcher dies of bronchitis at Copenhagen January 13 at age 68 (see 1903). Interest in "Fletcherism" (commonly called "Fletcherizing") has waned and will now disappear almost completely.

A team of scientists from Britain's year-old Accessory Food Factors Committee studies malnutrition in famine-stricken Vienna. Harriette Chick and her colleagues find scurvy common among infants, note a serious increase in rickets, and prove the success of good nutrition in curing rickets.

Edward Mellanby finds that rickets is not an infection as has been widely believed but rather the result of a dietary vitamin deficiency (see 1918; Drummond, McCollum, 1920; McCollum, 1922).