LETTERS
On
the
Dear
TO
Sir:
joulish, joulic, joulement ajoulean, ajoulic, ajoulish hyperjoulean, hyperjoulish
joulean,
acaloric
hypercaloric
joulific
calorically
joulistically, joulishly, j oulettement joulemeter joulemetry
calorimeter calorimetry
Upon dealing nutrition, definite
fibers
in nutrition:
need
for
count
protein-joule
malnu-
trition
And the connotation will be different: the word calorie bespeaks biologic phenomena, animal heat; joule is the hallmark of the physicist and the engineer. So the “joulization” of metabolic processes can only serve the interests of the reductionists, who try to show that there is no humanity in human protoplasm, only atoms and elementary particles and nuclear binding energies-or should that be “joulegies”? I am certain that James P. Joule would not be offended, nor would his memory be tainted, were nutritionists to disassociate themselves from their fellow scientists who now wish to worship energy in his name. So let us recapture the calorie (I) with its traditional richness of meaning, and hence avoid the prospect of the linguistic monstrosities set forth above. Gilbert B. Forbes, M.D. Department University
Rochester,
calorific
joule
calorie count protein-calorie malnutrition
of Pediatrics Rochester Medical New York 14642
of
Center
Reference 1. FORBES, G. B. Bejeweled 295, 1973.
better
Sir:
critical review of the recent literature with the effect of fiber in human it becomes apparent that there is a need for a more comprehensive and universally accepted nomenclature. The survival and scientific ambiguity of such terms as “crude fiber” (1) may be responsible for some of the lack of agreement in certain clinical fiber research. The need for a more explicit terminology in this field has been expressed by various
nutritionists.
Nutr.
Rev.
31:
nomenclature
and valuable suggestions have been made to attempt to correct the weaknesses of the term “crude fiber.” The reader is referred to the work of Southgate (2), Trowell (3), Van Soest and McQueen (4), Kritchevsky, Tepper and Story (5, 6), and Spiller and Amen (7) for various suggestions and use of better fiber terminology. Briefly, the following terms are used today: 1) Crude fiber (CF)-A mixture of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. According to Van Soest and McQueen (4), 80% of the hem icellulose and 50-90% of the lignin is lost investigators,
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caloric
Dear
675
EDITOR
joule
Oh! What a job the editors are going to have once the joule, that righteously proclaimed successor to the calorie, finally takes over. The symbols J and kJ pose no problem, but what about the poor chap who wants to form adverbs, adjectives, or compound words? The virtue of words derived from the Latin lies in the fact that the original words contained a root stem, and so were designed to accommodate the numerous suffixes used to indicate tense, case, and gender; hence our English derivatives accept them easily; nor is there any problem with Greek or Latin prefixes. So the Latin ca/or, caloris is easy to work with; but how about the joule? Look at the following list; the left-hand column lists words now in common use, the right-hand column an attempt at the “new” terminology:
Plant
THE
On
the
Dear
TO
Sir:
joulish, joulic, joulement ajoulean, ajoulic, ajoulish hyperjoulean, hyperjoulish
joulean,
acaloric
hypercaloric
joulific
calorically
joulistically, joulishly, j oulettement joulemeter joulemetry
calorimeter calorimetry
Upon dealing nutrition, definite
fibers
in nutrition:
need
for
count
protein-joule
malnu-
trition
And the connotation will be different: the word calorie bespeaks biologic phenomena, animal heat; joule is the hallmark of the physicist and the engineer. So the “joulization” of metabolic processes can only serve the interests of the reductionists, who try to show that there is no humanity in human protoplasm, only atoms and elementary particles and nuclear binding energies-or should that be “joulegies”? I am certain that James P. Joule would not be offended, nor would his memory be tainted, were nutritionists to disassociate themselves from their fellow scientists who now wish to worship energy in his name. So let us recapture the calorie (I) with its traditional richness of meaning, and hence avoid the prospect of the linguistic monstrosities set forth above. Gilbert B. Forbes, M.D. Department University
Rochester,
calorific
joule
calorie count protein-calorie malnutrition
of Pediatrics Rochester Medical New York 14642
of
Center
Reference 1. FORBES, G. B. Bejeweled 295, 1973.
better
Sir:
critical review of the recent literature with the effect of fiber in human it becomes apparent that there is a need for a more comprehensive and universally accepted nomenclature. The survival and scientific ambiguity of such terms as “crude fiber” (1) may be responsible for some of the lack of agreement in certain clinical fiber research. The need for a more explicit terminology in this field has been expressed by various
nutritionists.
Nutr.
Rev.
31:
nomenclature
and valuable suggestions have been made to attempt to correct the weaknesses of the term “crude fiber.” The reader is referred to the work of Southgate (2), Trowell (3), Van Soest and McQueen (4), Kritchevsky, Tepper and Story (5, 6), and Spiller and Amen (7) for various suggestions and use of better fiber terminology. Briefly, the following terms are used today: 1) Crude fiber (CF)-A mixture of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. According to Van Soest and McQueen (4), 80% of the hem icellulose and 50-90% of the lignin is lost investigators,
Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/28/7/675/4716427 by East Carolina University user on 15 January 2019
caloric
Dear
675
EDITOR
joule
Oh! What a job the editors are going to have once the joule, that righteously proclaimed successor to the calorie, finally takes over. The symbols J and kJ pose no problem, but what about the poor chap who wants to form adverbs, adjectives, or compound words? The virtue of words derived from the Latin lies in the fact that the original words contained a root stem, and so were designed to accommodate the numerous suffixes used to indicate tense, case, and gender; hence our English derivatives accept them easily; nor is there any problem with Greek or Latin prefixes. So the Latin ca/or, caloris is easy to work with; but how about the joule? Look at the following list; the left-hand column lists words now in common use, the right-hand column an attempt at the “new” terminology:
Plant
THE
