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concerned, changed but little from the ordinary diet. No special factors 

 were missing and our subjects were served food exactly like that 

 served the other college men, except that they were given smaller 

 portions. 



The quantities of food served were, in all instances, much smaller 

 than the normal pre-diet food consumption. The total nitrogen and 

 total energy available for the individual subjects are recorded in 

 various tables in other sections of this book; special reference to these 



Table 24. — Typical day's diet during period of maintenance of body-weight. 



Squad A. 



Kind of food (Dec. 12, 1917). Amount. Nitrogen. 



Breakfast : 



Bran muffins 



Milk (topped) . . 



Prunes 



Bran 



Sugar 



Butter 



Shredded wheat. 



Total . 



Dinner: 



Beefsteak 



Potato 



Tomato 



Gravy 



Bran muffins 



Cornstarch pudding . 

 Jelly (currant) 



Total . 



Supper: 



Bran muffins 



Milk (topped) 



Toast 



Chipped beef 



Cream sauce 



Potato (fried) 



Raspberry preserve . 



Cookies 



Butter 



Total. 



gms 

 75 



350 

 30 

 14 

 15 

 10 

 58 



50l 

 153 

 50 

 37 

 100 

 78 

 10 



80 

 233 

 40 

 20 

 84 

 110 

 42 

 23 

 lO' 



Total for day 12.85 



gma. 



12.75 



.31 



.02 

 .99 



4.07 



'4.41 



4.41 



14.35 



.02 



4.37 



Energy. 



cats. 



1485 



58 



59 



76 



233 



911 



1653 



27 



680 



1892 



76 



968 



2559 



1 Determined; all other values computed. 



will not be made until these tables are discussed. Examples of 

 characteristic diets, with amounts served, are, however, of interest here, 

 and we give in table 24 an illustration of a typical day's ration (De- 

 cember 12, 1917) for Squad A during a period of approximate weight 

 maintenance. As will be seen, a large proportion of the diet was 



