1929 - Nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrition pioneer Joseph Goldberger dies of cancer at Washington, D.C., January 17 at age 54, having done work that will lead to the virtual elimination of pellagra in America (see niacin, 1936).

A survey in Baltimore shows that 30 percent of children have rickets. A similar study in London's East End shows that 90 percent of children are rachitic (see Steenbock, 1923; 1927).

Cambridge, Mass.-born Harvard hematologist William B. (Bosworth) Castle, 31, finds that pernicious anemia can be prevented only if the gastric juices contain an "intrinsic" factor necessary for the absorption of an "extrinsic" factor in foods (see Minot and Murphy, 1924; Cohn, 1926; vitamin B12, 1948).

Danish biochemist Carl Peter Henrik Dam, 34, finds that he can produce severe internal bleeding in chickens if he puts them on a fat-free diet (see vitamin K, 1935).