An innovation in infant nutrition
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An innovation in infant nutrition
Pablum, the first pre-cooked, vitamin-enriched baby cereal, was a Canadian medical development. Created in the 1930s at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children by a team of three doctors, it revolutionized paediatric nutrition. The easily digestible cereal was fortified with essential vitamins and minerals, helping to reduce nutritional deficiencies like rickets in infants. #Canada #Innovation #History #Medicine
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An innovation in infant nutrition
Pablum, the first pre-cooked, vitamin-enriched baby cereal, was a Canadian medical development. Created in the 1930s at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children by a team of three doctors, it revolutionized paediatric nutrition. The easily digestible cereal was fortified with essential vitamins and minerals, helping to reduce nutritional deficiencies like rickets in infants. #Canada #Innovation #History #Medicine
@Canadian_Eh the *Miracle of Pablum* was one of the major sanitation and nutritional achievements that contributed to infant survival.
Here’s the peer reviewed Canadian Encyclopedia entry.
The achievement stands on its own, but the physician researchers credited with pablum need some further discussion.
The encyclopedia entry includes some important context of controversies, including the less ethical actions by those identified as the inventors.
For Reconciliation, it’s important to acknowledge that Frederick Tinsdall later conducted controlled nutritional experiments on Indigenous children in the 1940s to compare the benefits of fortified foods by *further malnourishing children who were at near starvation.”
The good that pablum does and its contribution to public health remains.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pablum
#Nutrition #Pablum #Indigenous #Reconciliation #Children #ChildrensHealth #FoodSafety
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@Canadian_Eh the *Miracle of Pablum* was one of the major sanitation and nutritional achievements that contributed to infant survival.
Here’s the peer reviewed Canadian Encyclopedia entry.
The achievement stands on its own, but the physician researchers credited with pablum need some further discussion.
The encyclopedia entry includes some important context of controversies, including the less ethical actions by those identified as the inventors.
For Reconciliation, it’s important to acknowledge that Frederick Tinsdall later conducted controlled nutritional experiments on Indigenous children in the 1940s to compare the benefits of fortified foods by *further malnourishing children who were at near starvation.”
The good that pablum does and its contribution to public health remains.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pablum
#Nutrition #Pablum #Indigenous #Reconciliation #Children #ChildrensHealth #FoodSafety
@AlsoPaisleyCat Good info. Ethics is an evolutionary (hopefully) thing, it seems.
