Essentially Vitamins are Important
January 18th 2010 03:04
citrus fruit is a good source of Vitamin C to stop scurvy
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who did a lot of studies in carbohydrate metabolism and muscular activity and it was he who concluded that vitamins and essential amino acids were an important part of a healthy diet.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovered the need for 'accessory food factors'
His discoveries that a lack of vitamins in the diet can cause scurvy and rickets were headlines worldwide in 1906 according to the Information Please website.
In 1929 he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his work.
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