Discovery of essential fatty acids

Dietary fat was recognized as a good source of energy and fat-soluble vitamins by the first part of the 20th century, but fatty acids were not considered to be essential nutrients because they could be synthesized from dietary carbohydrate. This well-established view was challenged in 1929 by George...

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Main Authors: Arthur A. Spector, Hee-Yong Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520356364