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FOOD INGESTION AND ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS. 



TABLE 38. Oxygen consumed at different times of day in respiration experiments; subject, 

 H. L. H. t in post-absorptive condition and lying on couch. (Values per minute.) 

 Average age, 25 years. Average body-weight (naked), 61.4 kilograms. Height, 172 cm. 



experimental periods were usually 15 minutes in length and there was but one period in each half hour, 

 total number of periods in which the oxygen was determined in the 46 experiments was 159. 



