Robert Falcon Scott and his party of four others likely starved to death on their return from the South Pole in 1912 because they underestimated their caloric needs and did not have enough rations to sustain their exertions, according to Lewis Halsey and Mike Stroud.
“Plato’s works are imbued with the fundamental principle of moderation. This spirit is characteristically evident in his references to human diet.
The discovery of vitamin A’s visual function presents a good example in the history of science of the step-wise nature of discovery, according to George Wolf.
The seminal discovery that sunlight was important in the prevention of nutritional rickets was made in 1890 by Theobald A. Palm, a medical missionary who contrasted the prevalence of rickets in northern European urban areas with similar areas in Japan and other tropical countries.
