Dear John,
I am aware of this paper – see the Acknowledgements.
Professor Hargrove and I have discussed this issue extensively. In the
end, I think it's fair to say that we agreed to disagree about the
importance of the word, calorie!
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
On 2009/07/19, at 9:39 PM, John M. Steele wrote:
A far better source and more exhaustive history of the calorie, in a
peer-reviewed journal with numerous references:
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/136/12/2957
History of the Calorie in Nutrition
James L. Hargrove*
Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
30602
You may also wish to research Wilbur Atwater. I think he had a bit
more to do with measurement of food energy than Lulu. At best, she
popularized it.
--- On Sun, 7/19/09, John M. Steele <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: John M. Steele <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [USMA:45428] Re: Names of old measuring methods
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 7:03 AM
Pat,
The calorie is FAR older than Lulu. She may or may not have been
the first to apply it to nutrition.
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