LEADER 02900nam 2200421 450 001 9910795387703321 005 20230817185630.0 010 $a1-988592-19-4 010 $a1-988592-17-8 035 $a(CKB)4940000000152163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5988821 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000152163 100 $a20200114h20192018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe unconventional career of Dr Muriel Bell /$fDiana Brown 210 1$aDunedin, New Zealand :$cOtago University Press,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (184 pages, xii pages of plates) $cillustrations 311 $a1-988531-30-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aWhether or not you have heard of pioneering nutritionist Muriel Bell, she has had a profound effect on your health. Appointed New Zealand's first state nutritionist in 1940, a position she held for almost a quarter-century, Muriel Bell was behind ground-breaking public health schemes such as milk in schools, iodised salt and water fluoridation. As a lecturer in physiology from 1923 to 1927, she had been one of the first women academics at Otago Medical School. The second woman in New Zealand to be awarded the research degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD), in 1926, her subsequent pioneering research on vitamins and minerals helped to prevent deficiency diseases, and later, optimise health. Bell's early research into fats and cholesterol tackled the complexity of nutrition- related aspects of coronary heart disease.At the base of her commitment to science lay a deep social concern, especially for women and children. In service to this cause Muriel Bell worked tirelessly. Her nutritional advice - common sense to us today but revolutionary at the time - was to eat more fruit, vegetables, wholegrains and milk products and to cut down on sugar, fat and meat. In 1937 she became a foundation member of the Medical Research Council, serving for two decades while simultaneously she was the sole woman on the Board of Health. Muriel Bell was a trailblazer by anyone's definition, unswervingly committed to the understanding that 'we are what we eat'; that nutrition is a cornerstone of individual and public health. Diana Brown tells the story of this extraordinary woman in this long-overdue biography.--Publisher information. 606 $aNutritionists$zNew Zealand$vBiography 606 $aWomen scientists$zNew Zealand$vBiography 615 0$aNutritionists 615 0$aWomen scientists 676 $a613.2092 700 $aBrown$b Diana$01583768 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795387703321 996 $aThe unconventional career of Dr Muriel Bell$93867169 997 $aUNINA