Wilbur Olin Atwater Quotes

United States, Chemist
May 3, 1844 – September, 22, 1907.

Wilbur Olin Atwater was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism. He is credited with developing the Atwater system, laying the groundwork, in the 19th century, for the science of nutrition in the United States and inspiring modern Olympic nutrition.

It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

Wilbur Olin Atwater
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

Wilbur Olin Atwater
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