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amount of meat oi' fish mid tlieii make up tlie rest of the pro- 

 tein with milk and eggs and peas and beans; in other words, 

 tion't make meat your sole souree of protein, but also eggs, 

 milk, eheese. beans, peas and nuts — nuts are very valuable 

 as a source of protein and fat. They are very coneentrated, 

 snd yet, mixed with less coneentrated food, they are very 

 good. Then you ought to eat carrots and turnips and onions 

 and beets, etc., because they contain mineral matter which 

 Ave find in fruit. Potatoes not as much in proportion to the 

 total composition, because we always think of potatoes as 

 contributing starch to such a great degree ; and apples. Then 

 it is not well to eat potatoes and rice at the same meal or 

 potatoes and macaroni, because the cereals contain a large 

 Mnount of starch, and if you are eating potatoes and a piece 

 of bread, you are getting plenty of starch. If you are doing 

 {■ good day's work, many people think it is better to eat the 

 hearty meal at noon, and I think that is so, but for people 

 who are in the city and have to pay a large amount of money 

 for their meals and are doing a lot of head work, then it 

 seems ])etter to have a light meal at noon and a heavy one 

 at night. 



A :MF:.MBER: Can they sleep as well? 



.AIISS HATCH: Yes, I think jus-t, as well. Iieeause they 

 have not been doing a lot of physical labor and the nuiseles 

 of the body are not tired. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I wonder if it would not be interest- 

 ing to the audience to have you say just a word about these 

 things here? 



PROF. CHENOWETH: I would like for :\Iiss Hatch to 

 point me a w^ay out of a difficulty ; the doctor tells me to eat 

 when I feel like it and when I am not hungry don't go to 

 the table; my wife has a ration laid out just the same as the 

 dairymen have for their cattle or hogs. Which am I going to 

 /oUow, the doctor or my wife? 



MISS HATCH: You will have to decide which will do 

 you the greatest amount of good. I know that my brother, 

 a few years ago, was told to eat only when he was hungry 



