Joseph L. Lyon

JOSEPH L. LYON. M.D., M.P.H. is Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, University of Utah College of Medicine.

Two Studies of Health and Religion in Utah: Active Religion and Health in Utah

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 4

Mormon Health

Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 3

The experience of Daniel and his friends in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon was, perhaps, the first published instance of a controlled clinical trial. This preliminary success led to an extension of the trial diet for a three-year period, at the end of which Daniel’s group not only demonstrated fairer countenances, but superior performances on the king’s equivalent to an I.Q. test.