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ECHO NOURISH

The epistemology of nutrition

How we came to know what we know about food

Where does the "2000 calorie diet" come from?

A 1990s FDA compromise between male and female averages, rounded for simplicity.

Explore the journey

The Story of Nutrients

How we discovered vitamins, minerals, and the science of food

How Do We Know What's In Food?

Calorimetry, lab methods, and the accuracy of nutrition labels

Who Decides What We Should Eat?

Where the 2000 calorie diet, RDAs, and guidelines come from

What We Don't Know

Contested science, individual variation, and emerging research

Meet the pioneers

James Lind

First clinical trial (scurvy)

Wilbur Atwater

Created the calorie system

Casimir Funk

Named vitamins

C. Eijkman

Diet-disease link

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

— Attributed to Hippocrates (though probably misattributed)

Even this quote has an epistemological story