Question

Who is the father of nutrition?

Answer 1

Nutrition:

1. It is defined as a physiological and biochemical process that gives organism support for its life.
2. It includes ingestion, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism (the process of breaking food), and excretion.

Father of nutrition:

1. Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier is the father of nutrition and chemistry; he discovered metabolism in 1770.
2. He demonstrated that energy from food is derived due to oxidation of it.