Alice G. Marsh

Alice Garrett Marsh (20 February 1908 – 26 July 1997) was an American registered dietitian, Seventh-day Adventist and vegetarianism activist.

Biography

Marsh was born in Berrien Center, Michigan. She obtained a B.S. in 1929 and a M.S. with a major in foods and nutrition from University of Nebraska in 1938. She worked as a dietitian at the Hinsdale Sanitarium (1929–1936) and was a research assistant at the University of Nebraska (1939–1944) under Ruth Leverton. Marsh was a professor of Home Economics at Union College (1947–1950). She authored the column "Nutrition in the News" for the Seventh-day Adventist magazine Life and Health (1944–1950).

Marsh attended Loma Linda University's First International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition in 1987. She was one of seven reviewers for the 1988 position of the American Dietetic Association on vegetarian diets.

Selected publications

One Hundred Studies of the Calcium, Phosphorus, Iron, and Nitrogen Metabolism and Requirement of Young Women (with Ruth M. Leverton, 1942) Cortical Bone Density of Adult Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarian and Omnivorous Women (1980) About Nutrition (1986) Vegetarian Lifestyle and Bone Mineral Density (1988) Calcium Requirement and Diet (1989)