Dennis M. Bier, MD, Editor: “As editor, I am excited to mark 60
years as a top-ranked journal. Since 1952, we have seen the topic
of nutrition become justifiably prominent in daily conversation.
I believe the future will devote even greater attention to the
research featured in AJCN.”
AJCN editors and their years of service:
• 1952–1962 S. O. Waife,
Founding Editor
• 1962–1967 Willard A.
Krehl
• 1967–1975 Milton E.
Rubini
• 1975–1979 Robert H.
Herman
• 1979–1981 Theodore B. Van
Itallie
• 1982–1991 Albert I.
Mendeloff
• 1992–1996 Norman
Kretchmer
• 1996-2007
Charles Halsted (including 1.5 years as Interim Editor)
• 2007-present Dennis M. Bier
These articles were included in the first issue from
1952:
• Overnutrition and Obesity
• Alcoholism as a Nutritional Problem
• Dietary Treatment of Hypertension
• The Effect of Amino Acid Deficiencies in
Man
• Growth Failure in School Children: Further
Studies of Vitamin B12 Dietary Supplements
• Hypovitaminemia A: Effect of Vitamin A
Administration on Plasma Vitamin A Concentration, Conjunctival
Changes, Dark Adaptation and Toad Skin
• Basic Research and its Application in the
Field of Clinical Nutrition
• The Therapeutic uses of low fat, low
cholesterol diets: I. Treatment of Essential Familial
Xanthomatosis