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10 A man of average weight (one hundred and fifty-four pounds, or seventy kilos), at moderate work, requires about three thousand calories daily. The standard dietaries include one hundred and twenty-five grammes proteid, fifty grammes fat, and five hundred grammes carbohydrates.

Proteid 125 grammes X4 = 500 calories Carbohydrates ... 500 " X4 = 2000 " Fat 50 " X 8.9 = 445 " Total calorie value 2945 "

A man at light work 2450 to 2800 calories " " " medium work 2800 to 3150 " " " hard muscular work. . . 3150 to 4200 " " « rest 2100 to 2450

A woman needs eight-tenths as much food as a man.

The quantity of food required in a temperate and warm climate is about the same; the kinds, however, vary. Mother Nature, always wise and unerring, produces different crops to meet different needs. In our own country oats is grown in the northern part, rice in the southern.

In a cold climate more food is needed,—a fact not due to the temperature, but to the greater activity of the inhabitants,—and fat forms a larger proportion of the diet, as it is oxidized slowly in the body.

1140 calories. The same statement applies to many of the flours, thus:—

1 lb. flour furnishes 1665 calories.

1 lb. entire wheat flour furnishes 1675 calories.

1 lb. corn meal furnishes 1655 calories.

1 lb. corn starch furnishes 1675 calories.

1 lb. wheatlet furnishes 1685 calories.

1 lb. hominy furnishes 1650 calories.

1 lb. granulated corn meal furnishes 1665 calories.

1 lb. wheat germ furnishes 1695 calories.

1 lb. tapioca furnishes 1650 calories.