INFLUENCE OF FOOD ON METABOLISM. 



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TABLE 23. Heat production of infants after food. 



The lowest value, presumably the basal value, is italicized in each series of observations 

 The designations for the activity are given the following values: I, very quiet, probably asleep; 

 II, slight movements, few in number; III, some activity, but generally quiet. The 

 method of estimating the activity is described by Benedict and Talbot, Carnegie Inst. 

 Wash. Pub. No. 201, 1914, p. 136. 



