THE NEW EARTH 



during the test may be determined. The first 

 table before given shows the quantity of nutri- 

 ents in practically all foods that would be 

 used in an ordinary family, so that one may 

 know precisely how much nourishment and 

 how much waste there is in the foods which are 

 being eaten during the test. After prolonged 

 investigation by many different men, it has 

 been proven that, under normal conditions, a 

 man at hard muscular work requires one and 

 two-tenths the food of a man at moderately 

 active muscular work; a man with light mus- 

 cular work and a boy fifteen to sixteen years 

 old, nine-tenths the food of a man at mode- 

 rately muscular work. Men in sedentary occu- 

 pations and women at moderately active work, 

 boys from thirteen to fourteen and girls fif- 

 teen to sixteen, need eight-tenths the food of 

 the man at moderately active muscular work. 

 Women at light work, boys of twelve, and 

 girls thirteen to fourteen require seven-tenths, 

 boys ten to eleven and girls ten to twelve, six- 

 tenths, and children from six to nine years, 

 five-tenths as much as the man at moderately 

 active muscular work. 



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