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ries Avonkl be all right for the day. That is, if you have 

 meat once or twice a day and vegetables at least once a day 

 and bread twice a day and fruit once a day and possibly a 

 g'lass of milk, you will get the proper number of calories in 

 the right proportion. Does that answer your rpiestion .' 



:\1RS. STOKROW: That is still too vague for my entire 

 satisfaction. You have got there a tremendous variety of 

 food. If we were taking care of that hog, we should have 

 probably everything weighed out and we should not say 

 that you had meat twice a day, but we should say exactly 

 ho\y much meat and what kind of meat and would know 

 exactly how much meat and what kind of meat and M'ould 

 state exactly the proportions. Now my complaint against 

 all the doctors 1 have ever consulted, but one, is that I never 

 could get that definite proportion and then leave it to me to 

 say how much of that food in all I should take, but what are 

 the proportions necessary for keeping a person in health? 



MISS HATCH: You see in our foods there is a great 

 rieal more variety than in food for animals. You can say 

 }::'ive an animal so many pounds of oats, etc. I don't know 

 exactly how it would be, but you have oats and corn, etc., to 

 LMve to the animals. We have as food, meat, eggs,, butter, 

 beans, etc. The only thing to do is to get a table ; there you 

 have the composition of each typical food given, and you 

 can buy tables which will give the exact number of calories, 

 and of those calories the percentage of protein for every food 

 v.e serve, and take that table and you can sit down and 

 estimate exactly how nnich food you ought to eat for the 

 day. If I were making out a diet for a family wh(^ were 

 restricted for certain reasons, I should take this little book 

 and sit down and work it out, because I could not remember 

 possibly that I received two grams moje for the beets than 

 for something else; roughly, meat, eggs and beans are in-o- 

 tein food ; you want a good amount of them ; also starchy 

 lliings, such as potatoes and bread, aiul you also want 

 water}' vegetables, and to make the thing perfectly complete 

 A'ou nuist work with a tabl(\ 



