NUTRITION AND NUTRITIONAL DISEASESl
The authors limit themselves to three subjects, kwashiorkor, medicine in a famine, and the metabolism of ascorbic acid, which is a personal decision de termined by their own interests and experience and in no way reflects the importance of these subjects relative to other branches of nutrition.
Abstract
We begin by expressing our gratitude to our predecessors, Dr. Kahn and Dr. Stare, who wrote the article on nutrition in the Annual Review of Medi cine for 1950, for they established the principle that in a review of this nature, it would be quite impractical to attempt to cover the enormous field in which so many are forwarding knowledge. Like them, we have confined ourselves to three subjects, our choices being kwashiorkor, medicine in a famine, and the metabolism of ascorbic acid. This is a personal decision de termined by our own interests and experience and in no way reflects the importance of these subjects relative to other branches of nutrition.