THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION

The development of the new science of nutrition is one of
the major advances of our times in its dramatically rapid
series of discoveries and in its potentialities both for higher
health and for what Dean Woodbridge called rendering more
intelligible the world in which we live.
This book seeks to present the science of nutrition in a different way from any other. As contrasted with a textbook or
reference handbook, this might be called a book about nutrition rather than in the science. Technical terms are reduced
to a minimum and no specific training in science is demanded
of the reader. Yet somewhat more of scientific curiosity and of
intelligent appreciation of accuracy and adequacy are presupposed than in the primer-like books of which so many
have been published recently