In 1947 the F. A. O. Committee on Calorie Conversion Factors and Food Composition Tables met in Washington, D. C. to "develop principles on which average food composition figures used by individual countries could be based." The recommendation of this committee was that further research should be carried out "on energy - yielding constituents of food and the derivation of calorie values." As part of the investigation of the physiological fuel values proposed by Atwater in 1899 and widely used since that time for determining the useful calorie value of human foods, a comparative digestibility study involving humans, sheep, swine, rats and guinea pigs was begun in the Department of Nutrition laboratory at Macdonald College in 1949.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113580 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Young, Helen. G. |
| Contributors | Crampton, E. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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