528 VITALITY AND EFFICIENCY WITH RESTRICTED DIET. 



for the whole squad. On the percentage basis these 10 men showed on 

 the average a decrease of 14.1 per cent, the minimum being 9.5 per 

 cent with Sne and the maximum 22.1 per cent with Tho. The per- 

 centage decrease for practically all of the other men was not far from 

 the average of 14.1 per cent. We may conclude, therefore, from these 

 two series of experiments that a lowering of the metabolism per kilo- 



Table 136. — Post-absorptive metabolism during standing preliminary to walking on 



treadmill — Squad B. 



gram due to the restriction in diet is shown not only when Squad B was 

 measured as a group, but when the men were measured individually. 

 In the discussion of table 134 (see p. 523) it was brought out that when 

 the values for January 6 were used as a base-line the low diet produced 

 a decrease in the metabolism of the group as a whole of 13.3 per cent 

 with the subjects Ijdng quietly asleep in the group chamber. This 

 value is almost identical with the reduction shown in table 136 of 

 14.1 per cent for 10 members of the squad standing quietly. This 

 fact has a double interest, first, as a general confirmation of the lower- 

 ing of the metabolism due to the decrease in the amount of food, and 

 second, as an indication that with a low diet not only is the heat output 

 during complete muscular repose reduced about 13 or 14 per cent, but 

 likewise the heat output with the subject standing with a slightly 

 higher metaboUc level shows a similar percentage reduction. 



The metabolism for the standing and lying positions can not be 

 compared with each man in Squad B to note the effect of change in 

 position, as no individual measurements of the metabolism were made 

 with these subjects in the lying position, and comparisons with other 



