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I m ].! ence of Inanitiox ox Metabolism. 



The data in table 247 show that on the first and second days of experiment 

 No. 70, and the first day of experiment No. 76, the subjects still continued to 

 lose weight, as would probably be implied by the fact that the amount of food 

 ingested was barely enough for maintenance. The body-weights of S. A. B. 

 in the nitrogen metabolism experiments are given in table 248. 



Table 248. Daily body-weight (including clothes) Nitrogen metabolism experi- 

 ments Nos. 1 and 2. 



During these experiments relatively large amounts of food were consumed 

 and the body-weight attained constancy about 8 or 9 days after the close of 

 each fast. 



Of special interest is the table of body-weights after fasting of some of the 

 subjects of the 2-day experiments. These subjects were required to come to 

 the laboratory and be weighed for several weeks after the conclusion of their 

 fasts. 



Table 249 shows that there was a marked tendency for all of these subjects 

 to gain weight and indeed ultimately to exceed their initial weights. A rough 

 comparison with the weights of a number of college students taken during the 

 same period of the year shows that while there was a general tendency for the 

 weights to increase during this portion of the year, all the subjects of these 

 experiments increased in weight very considerably more than did their fellows. 

 This seems to suggest that a short period of inanition may so stimulate 

 anabolism as to result subsequently in a permanent increase in body-weight. 



