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The American Society for Nutritional Sciences 75^th Anniversary

The Journal of Nutrition

This year the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and The Journal of Nutrition are celebrating their 75^th anniversary. Five well-known nutrition scientists who lived in the state of New York formed the society in 1928 for the sole purpose of publishing a journal. These scientists, John R. Murlin, Eugene F. DuBois, Graham Lusk, Mary S. Rose and Henry C. Sherman, incorporated as an educational organization and then invited six scientists from other states to serve with them as the editorial board. Five years later, they accepted 172 charter members into the society and began holding a scientific meeting each year. Harold H. Williams described these events in a history of the society published in 1978 at the 50^th anniversary. Though it is now out-of-print, this informative account of the history of the society and The Journal will be available on The Journal of Nutrition web site, www.nutrition.org, later this year.

In recognition of the 75^th anniversary, this issue of The Journal includes two articles of a historical nature. One updates Williams’ history, bringing the story of the society up to the present. The other is the first of four invited articles that will form a brief history of nutritional science from the end of the 18^th century until about 1985. This short history is intended for students and their instructors as an accessible overview of the ideas, and the testing of those ideas through experimentation, that formed much of the twentieth century knowledge about nutrients and their function. It will also illustrate the way in which dogmatic approaches often deter progress in science, as well as the benefits to progress of insightful and innovative experimentation. The second article will be published in the April issue and the last two in the fall of this anniversary year. Because these four articles will appear in regular issues of The Journal, they will be archived on the www.nutrition.org website and will be easily obtained by students.

The Journal of Nutrition was the first publication devoted exclusively to the results of original research in nutritional science. Today at its 75^th anniversary it is in excellent health. The Journal is the leader among publications in its category and is emphasizing the new directions of the science as it integrates information from the human genome with knowledge of metabolism (metabolomics) and the overall functioning of the human body. Based on long experience in integrating scientific knowledge from many sources as it relates to nutrition, today’s nutrition scientists are poised to be leaders in exploiting knowledge from genomic and metabolomic experimental approaches for the betterment of human health. Much of this exciting effort will be captured in issues of The Journal of Nutrition over the next 25 years, as it approaches its 100^th anniversary.

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