Father of Nutrition
Who is the father of nutrition?
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The Father of Nutrition is Antoine Lavoisier.
He is also referred to as the Father of Chemistry and Calorimetry.
* In the year 1770, he developed the following:
1. Concept of metabolism.
2. Creation of energy.
3. Intake of food and water and its transfer to water and heat.
* An important demonstration by Lavoisier was the change in oxygen consumption during different activities.
-Digestion, work, during cold- increased
-Fasting- decreased.
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Antoine Lavoisier is known as the Father of Nutrition.
Explanation:
- Antoine Lavoisier was a French person.
- He was a famous biologist as well as chemist of his contemporary time and is remembered by the whole world due to his contributions in chemistry as well as biology.
- His discovery of stoichiometry as well as oxygen has immense importance in the field of chemistry.
- In the year if 1770, Lavoisier discovered the whole pathway of food absorption as well as its main metabolisms.
- He discovered the importance of certain compounds in food, whose absence can cause several diseases.
- In 1800's, he discovered the presence of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon in the normal daily food. These contributions in the field of biology made him the father of Nutrition.
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