Multiple Discipline Research Forum
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Basic Contributions to Medicine by Research in Nutrition William J. Darby, M.D., Ph.D., Nashville, Tenn.
THE INCLUSION of nutrition as one of the subjects of this multi-disciplinary symposium is recognition of recent broad advances and interests in nutrition in relation to medical science and practice. No longer is nutrition considered to be synonymous with dietetics, with vitamin deficiency diseases, with the chemistry of essential nutrients, or, indeed, with food faddism. In fact, if I were to identify the major advance in nutrition within the recent past and the predicted greatest single advance for medical nutrition in the future, unhesitatingly, I would state that it is the reidentification of the broad role of nutrition in health and disease. This accounts for the active interest of specialists from all branches of medicine in the relationship of nutrition to those diseases and patients for which they are responsible.
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From the Division of Nutrition of the departments of biochemistry and medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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Presented at the Symposium and Panel Discussion on Basic Contributions to Medicine and Medical Practice by the Clinical Disciplines: Clinical Advances in Medicine, Multiple Discipline Research Forum, at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York City, June 28, 1961.
