worked on dietary protocol for treatment of diabetes
Rena Sarah Eckman (March 30, 1868 – November 8, 1946) was an American dietitian, a founding member and leader of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and founder of the Pennsylvania Dietetic Association. She was co-author of a 1916 book on a dietary protocol for the treatment of diabetes.
She was a founding member and served on the executive board of the American Dietetic Association.[8][9] She spoke to women's clubs,[10] and was a featured speaker at the 1941 meetings of the Pennsylvania Dietetic Association (which she helped to establish) and the Maryland Dietetic Association.[11][12]
Rena Eckman was author of The Starvation (Allen) Treatment of Diabetes (1916, with Lewis Webb Hill), describing the dietary protocol used by Frederick Madison Allen at Massachusetts General Hospital to treat patients with diabetes.[13][14] She also worked on food waste in institutional kitchens,[15] and on the protein value of peanut flour.[16]
Later life
In March 1941 she was among the injured after a train accident in Baden, Pennsylvania.[17] Rena Sarah Eckman died in 1946 at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh; she was 78 years old.[7][2]
^Lynn K. Nyhart, "Home Economists in the Hospital, 1900-1930" in Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti, eds., Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (Cornell University Press 1997): 125-144. ISBN9780801481758
