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eortaiu aniomit of meat or fish, and one with a good amount 

 of vegetables, (starchy vegetables such as potatoes and a less 

 concentrated vegetable sucli as spinach, lettuce, etc., with 

 -j'ruit, makes the best diet. Does that answer your question? 



]\IRS. STOREOAV: No, because that is so vague. I have 

 tried for a great many j^ears to get a definite answer to that 

 tjuestion from doctors, ])ut until last winter I never could 

 get anyone to say that the human machine needs such a pro- 

 portion of carbohydrates, protein, minerals, etc. Is not 

 there some definite conformation of which the proportion 

 should be the same? 



THE CHAIRMAN : :\Irs. Storrow wants a balanced ra- 

 tion such as we have for stock. 



:\IRS. STORROW: I never could understand why our 

 stock receives such intelligent and scientific attention and 

 the human receives no attention at all. 



THE CHAIRMAN: You ought to hear Dr. Wiley talk 

 ^;bout that. He tells about a man who had a valuable hog 

 in Illinois and the Government sent two doctors from Wash- 

 ington to look after the hog, and a neighbor had a sick child 

 and couldn't get even one doctor to look after that. 



]MISS HATCH: Sometimes a doctor, in making out a 

 tliet for a person, will say.'SSee that the patient receives so 

 many calories." A calorie is a measure of heat, and by ex- 

 periment Ave have found that fat gives twice as much heat 

 as carbo-hydrates and proteins, and the proteins are neces- 

 sary for building the tissues. Suppose I need 2oOO calories 

 m my food — a tenth of those calories should be supplied by 

 ])rotein, in order to get the right amount of protein for the 

 Iiuilding of tissue. Now the only way to show that is to 

 show you a meal. Supposing I had, for breakfast, fruit and 

 (.'eral. an egg and toast and some sort of a beverage for heat, 

 and at noon I had meat or fish and two or three vegetables 

 and a light dessert, ]^ossiI)ly with fruit and bread and butter, 

 ;ind at night 1 had for supper, scallops, macaroni and cheese 

 ?ind some nut bread, — you know I spoke about raisin breact 

 - — and some sauce and a piece of apple pie. Now my calo- 



