A Lecture on THE RELATION OF DIET TO HEALTH AND DISEASE: SOME RECENT INVESTIGATIONS

Abstract

rIHERE is but liti-le doutbt that soiime ofthle most imiportant (onitriblftions to mehliciie in the last few Years have come throuiglh thle study of dietetics and nutrition. Advances in knowi-ledge of these sulbjectslhax-e affected, or ought to have iffected, tme health of all m likind. I propose, therefore, a1s one whose lot it hals been to b3e intimately connected u-itli 11m estigatiotlis on thlis suibject, to relate something of the muork that has beeni carried out ini recent Vears. The lImited time at my disl)osal only allows ofa. cursoryglance at a feew of the problems, but nevertheless propOse to draw attention. niot onlv to points which, fromi a, practical aspect, may be-regarded as settled, but also to results wh llicvh sluggest that ther e are otller-patlhological coniditionis in whIichl it is probable that dietetics will be founld to play a (lomiiauit W)liat.