Re: Liebig's Law of the Minimum


"TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_Law_of_the_Minimum

Liebig's Law of the Minimum, often simply called Liebig's Law or the
Law of the Minimum, is a principle developed in agricultural science by
Justus von Liebig. It states that growth is controlled not by the total
of resources available, but by the scarcest resource.

I wonder why this is not used, discussed and referenced more often in
modern medicine.

It isn't referenced because, unlike most plants, humans don't grow for their
lifetime.
So quoting that something "hampers growth" would be a lot less meaningful
and could only apply to a certain time of human life.
It is used (in the basic meaning of it), however: although not referenced as
"Liebig's Law".. because that would be about as redundant as referencing
"Newtons Law of Gravity" when talking about trees loosing their leaves in
autumn.



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