Nutrition Past and Present: the relationship between diet and health from the nineteenth-century to today
Nutrition Past and Present: the relationship between diet and health from the nineteenth-century to today
Bio-Lit Talks: Perspectives on the Gut
Date: Thursday 01 December 2022
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Seminar Room 237 - ARC, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6EW or online via Zoom
Category: Academic events
Speaker: Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie - historian of science and culture; Dr. Adam Dobson, nutritional biologist and expert in metabolism; Dr Elsa Richardson - histo
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As our understanding of human physiology grew in the nineteenth-century, we saw an explosion of knowledge in gastric biology, which triggered social and artistic responses. Nowadays the fascinating impact of nutrition on human health and diseases is increasingly being researched and applied.
Join Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie - historian of science and culture; Dr Adam Dobson, nutritional biologist and expert in metabolism, and Dr. Elsa Richardson - historian of health and nutrition - as they discuss how we communicate food benefits and food health today, and how our behaviours owe much to the approach of our forebears.
Through a brief history of diet and digestion, we will explore how nineteenth-century perspectives have added to our understanding of what it means to be healthy in the twenty-first.
Refreshments and a networking session are included.