The essential nature and organisation of food energy and the application of the second principle of thermo-dynamics to food value and its active force / by M. Bircher-Benner ; translated by D. E. Hecht and E. F. Meyer.

  • Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Date:
1939
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Credit: The essential nature and organisation of food energy and the application of the second principle of thermo-dynamics to food value and its active force / by M. Bircher-Benner ; translated by D. E. Hecht and E. F. Meyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PAGE Introduction .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 Preface 3 I. The Essential Nature of Food Energy .. .. 8 A Remark on Correlations .. .. .. 36 II. The Application of the Second Principle of Thermodynamics to the Value and Effects of Nutrition .. .. .. .. .. 39 The Laws of Energy in Respect of Alterations in the Substance of Food and in the Nutri- tional Process .. .. .. .. .. 49 The First Principle : The Law of the Preservation of Energy .. .. .. .. .. .. 51 The Second Principle : The Law of Entropy .. 56 Summary .. .. .. .. .. .. 84
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