• FOUNDE D IN THE FAITH THAT }.

lIEN ARE ENNOBLED BY UNDERST ANDING •

1851 DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF L EARNING AND T HE SEARCH F OR T RUTH
DEVOTED T O T HE INST RUCTION OF YOUTH AND THE W E L FARE OF THE STATE
1951

THE
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Upon the Occasion of the Minnesota Conference on
Residues of Nutritional Insult
Minneapolis. June 1 and 2. 1950

ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF

rite Rio/O/II 0/ JlIIIIIIlH StllfVlltiOJf

by Ancel Keys,
Josef Brozek, Austin Henschel.
Olaf Mickelsen, Henry Longstreet Taylor
with the assistance of Ernst Simonson, Angie S. Skinner,
and Samuel M. Wells
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Dinner Meeting
Main Ballroom, Coffman Memorial Union
June 2, 1950
 PROGRAM ...
. in honor of those human "guinea pigs" and the research
staff who made the book possible.

• Let's 10t1k at the book.

Film by the Audio-Visual Education Department.

• Starvation: The Silent Enemy.

A KUOM presentation by members of the University Radio Guild.

• Meet the Hguinea pigs"-

then and now. Lester Glick, West Jefferson, Ohio; Max Kampel-
man, Washington, D .C.; Roscoe Hinkle, Madison, Wis.; Carlyle
Frederick, Warsaw, Ind.; George Ebeling, Moylan, Pa.; Cedric
Scholberg, Minneapolis; Robert Villwock, Chicago, Ill.; James
Graham, Madison, Wis.; Howard Lutz, Minneapolis .
Film : "Starvation-1945"

• Those at the head table

will be introduced by Dr. Malcolm M. Willey, Vice President,
Academic Administration.

• HOur Food and Our Future,"

address by Dr. A. J. Carlson, Professor of Physiology, University of
Chicago.

• Speaking for the University-

Dr. Theodore C: Blegen, Dean of the Graduate School.

• Speaking for the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene-

Dr. Ancel Keys, Director.
 From the FOREWORD to
~~The Biology of Human Starvation"
Dr. C. G. King, Scientific Director,
The Nutrition Foundation
Dr. Robert R. Williams, Chairman,
The Williams-Waterman Fund

The science of nutrition is generally regarded as having first reached

a quantitative and sound philosophic basis in the studies of the French
chemist, Lavoisier, toward the end of the 18th century. During the
intervening century and a half, and especially in the last 50 years,
exciting discoveries have been made concerning the respective roles of
sugars, fats, vitamins, amino acids, and trace mineral elements. The record
now being published by Professor Ancel Keys and his associates will be
recognized as a major contribution.
Among the reasons why the present report is highly significant, scientists
will quickly recognize the following:
1. The studies were conducted under controlled conditions, with a
sufficient number of carefully selected test subjects and over a long enough
period of time to permit in nearly all instances a satisfactory statistical
treatment of the data.
2. Appraisals of performance of the test subjects included a battery
of techniques based upon different professional disciplines, thereby bring-
ing into the study a critical approach to variations that might be observed
(a) in the diets consumed, (b) in physical performance capacity, (c) in
psychologic factors at play, by design or accident, and (d) in metabolic
disturbances that might be identified by chemical analysis-using objective
rather than subjective evidence whenever possible.
3. Both in the planning of the work and in its interpretation there
was a timely sense of relationship to actual human need and experience.
For the record, this item was of major importance in making research
subjects and all other personnel available.
The new information provided in the present publication will have
widespread use. The report will have fruition in human betterment and is
likely to become the leading scientific reference in its field.
 CONFEREES
Minnesota Conference on Residues of Nutritional Insult,
Minneapolis, June 1 and 2, 1950
J. D. Adamson
University of Manitoba
Joseph Anderson, Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota
John Berkman
Mayo Foundation
Josef Brozek, Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota
A. J. Carlson
University of Chicago
Carleton B. Chapman, Medicine and
Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota
Col. J. N. Crawford
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
W. J. Darby, U.S.P.H.S.
Vanderbilt University Medical School
J. Groen
Amsterdam
Austin Henschel, Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota
Paul E. Howe
U. S. Department.of Agriculture
Ora Huston
Brethren Service Commission
Robert M. Kark
University of Illinois
Ancel Keys, Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota and Food and
Nutrition Board
Carl J. Koehn
Office of the Surgeon General
David Lubbock, Nutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization of
United Nations
Georgia L. Lusk
War Claims Commission
Charles D. May, Pediatrics
University of Minnesota
Olaf Mickelsen, Biochemistry
U.S.P.H.S.
Sergius Morgulis, Biochemistry
University of Nebraska
Helen T. Parsons, Home Economics
University of Wisconsin
William E. Petersen, Dairy Husbandry
University of Minnesota
Herbert Pollack, New York
National Research Council
E. E. Rice, Nutrition
Swift and Co.
Martin H. Roepke, Veterinary Medicine
University of Minnesota
Max O. Schultze, Agricultural Biochem-
istry
University of Minnesota
Ernst Simonson, Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota
C. Joseph Stetler
War Claims Commission
Henry L. Taylor, Physiological Hygiene
University of Minnesota
G. Cullen Thomas
General Mills and Food and Nutrition
Board
Richard L. Varco, Surgery
University of Minnesota
Richard W. Vilter
University of Cincinnati and U.S.P.H.S.
Maurice B. Visscher, Physiology
University of Minnesota
Unitarian Service Committee
Cecil J. Watson, Medicine
University of Minnesota
Russell M. Wilder, Medicine
Mayo Foundation and Food and Nutri-
tion Board
James R. Wilson
American Medical Association Council
on Foods and Nutrition