70 THE PROTEIN ELEMENT IN NUTRITION 



Benedict,* by taking into account the large amount of data 

 available as a result of dietary studies in different countries, 

 gives the following estimates of the average food consumption 

 of people under certain circumstances : 



A selection of some of the available data is here presented. 

 A large number of results obtained from dietary studies have 

 been collected, but it would not serve any useful purpose to 

 go into a mass of details. Taking the results as a whole, 

 they conform very closely to the standard dietaries already 

 shown : 



* Benedict, loc. cit. 



