CONTENTS 



CHAPTER III. TROPICAL FOOD MATERIALS AND THEIR DIGES- 

 TIBILITY Continued 



Relative values in nutrition of white bread, standard bread, 



and wholemeal bread - 50 



Conclusions arrived at - - 51 



Maize as a food - - 52 



Protein content and protein absorption - - 53 



Its suitability as a food - - - 54 



Barley as a food - - - - - - -54 



Protein content and protein absorption - - 55 



Juar as a food - - 55 



Protein content and protein absorption - - 55 



Bajra as a food - 55 



Protein content and protein absorption - - 55 



Foodstuffs derived from the Leguminosese - - 57 



Chemical composition - - - 57 



Their importance in the East - 58 



Work done on protein absorbability - 59 



Effects of bulk on protein absorption - 60 

 Percentage absorption of the protein of the different 



legumes - 62 



Summary of results obtained for the coefficients of the digesti- 

 bility of tropical food materials - 65 



CHAPTER IV. THE PROTEIN METABOLISM OF MANKIND 6795 



Scientific study of dietetics - - 67 



Importance of Chittenden's work - 68 



Dietary standards, methods of arriving at - 68 



Generally accepted standards - - 69 



Benedict's estimates of average food consumption - - 70 



Selection of average dietaries in Europe and America - 70 



Caloric values of army rations in peace and war - 71 



Atwater's standards - 71 



Tropical dietaries : Oshima's researches - 72 



Rice not the principal food material of the tropics - - 73 



Dietary studies in Japan - - 74 



Values of army ration of different nations - - 74 



Dietary of jinricksha man of Japan - - - 74 



Effects of alteration in the Japanese Navy dietary - - 76 



Dietary studies in India - 76 



First study : Students and servants of medical college - - 76 



Bengali and Japanese contrasted - - - 77 



Bengali and Chittenden's deductions - 77 



Second study : Two medical assistants of medical college - 78 



Third study : Diet scales of different classes of Bengalis - - 78 



Preference for a mixed type of dietary - 80 



Chittenden's misconception of Bengali's diet discussed : his 



criticisms answered - - 81 

 Chittenden's experiment on six assistants examined : his 



figures corrected - 83 



Ordinary Bengali diet not ill-balanced - - 85 



Fourth study : Residential colleges : students' dietaries - - 85 

 Fifth study: Dietaries of hill- tribes of Bengal: Bhutias, Sikhimese, 



and Nepalese - 86 



Nitrogenous metabolism per kilo of body weight - - 87 



Sixth study : Dietaries of aborigines of Chota Nagpur - - 88 



The meat-eating Todas and salt - - 88 



Nitrogenous metabolism of aborigines - 89 



Seventh study : Dietaries of the fighting castes of India - - 89 



The foodstuffs of the Sikh - - - - 90 



