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词条 Mikkel Hindhede
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  1. Biography

  2. Potato diet

  3. References

  4. External links

Mikkel Hindhede (surname pronounced as hin-d-her) (13 February 1862 – 17 December 1945), was a Danish physician and nutritionist, born on the farm Hindhede outside Ringkøbing on the Danish west coast.[1]

Biography

Hindhede was the manager of the Danish National Laboratory for Nutrition Research in Copenhagen 1910 – 32 and food advisor to the Danish government during World War I.

On his suggestion, much of the pigs were sold off and the number of cows for dairy was reduced by one third. Alcohol production was also limited. The agricultural food freed that way was used for human consumption. With these measures, not only could famines be completely avoided during the allied blockade in 1917 and 1918, the death rate also sank to the lowest number ever. Germany had more food per capita, but a larger share was used for animal production, and famine was widespread in 1918.

Encouraged by his uncle, the physicist Niels Johannes Fjord at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Hindhede was allowed to study medicine in Copenhagen and graduated with distinction in 1888.

After two decades as a general practitioner and hospital doctor in Skanderborg in Jutland, he returned with his family to Copenhagen in 1909, where he lived for the rest of his life. In his research, he studied the protein minimum and showed that earlier estimates of more than 100 grams per day were exaggerated. He recommended more rye bread, potatoes, and vegetables, and less meat.

Hindhede Nature Park and Hindhede Quarry in Singapore are named after the elder of his two sons, Jens Hindhede, who was a businessman and tea farmer in Singapore and Malaysia in the 20s and 30s. The younger son was the civil engineer and industrialist Kristian Hindhede.

Potato diet

Hindehede was the first scientist to demonstrate that humans could live off a diet of potatoes as the main food source.[2] He tested this by living on a potato and water diet with small amounts of butter and milk for several months. He concluded that "man can retain full vigor for a year or longer on a diet of potatoes and fat."[2] His results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 1920.

Stanislaw Kon and Aniela Klein confirmed Hindhede's findings.[2][3] They carried out all-potato diet (supplemented with some coffee and fruit) for 167 days. They reported in 1928 that "the digestion was excellent throughout the experiment and both subjects felt very well."[2]

References

1. ^Nielsen, Anders Gaarn du Jardin; Metcalfe, Neil H. (2018). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0967772015623412 Mikkel Hindhede (1862–1945): A pioneering nutritionist]. Journal of Medical Biography 26 (3): 202–206.
2. ^Fitzgerald, Matt. (2014). Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us. Pegasus Books. p. 117. {{ISBN|978-1-60598-560-2}}
3. ^Kon, Stanisław Kazimierz; Klein, Aniela. (1928). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1252113/ The value of whole potato in human nutrition]. Biochemical Journal 22 (1): 258–260.

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080530215311/http://www.euroveg.eu/evu/english/news/news961/denmark2.html The effect of Food Restriction on Mortality in Copenhagen during War]
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