DIETETICS 



500 grammes milk, 75 grammes oatmeal (as porridge), 30 grammes 

 butter, 30 grammes fat (with the meat, or in other ways), and 

 450 grammes potatoes, we get approximately 20 grammes nitrogen 

 and 300 grammes carbon contained in 135 grammes protein, rather 

 less than 100 grammes fat, and somewhat over 400 grammes carbo- 

 hydrates. Thus 



Peace. 



Bread 

 Meat 

 Rice - 



or barley groats 

 Legumes - 

 Potatoes 



This would be a fair ' hard work ' diet for a well-nourished labourer. 

 But the great elasticity of dietetic formulae is shown in the following 

 tables, which give the ration of the German soldier in peace and war 

 and the minimum allowance per ' statute adult ' prescribed in the 

 British regulations concerning passenger- ships from Great Britain 

 to America. 



Ration of the German Soldier. 



War. 



750 grammes. Bread - - 750 grammes. 



150 ,, Biscuit - - 500 



50 ,, Meat - - 375 



1 20 ,, Smoked meat - 250 



230 ,, or fat - - 170 



- 1,500 ,, Rice - - 125 



or barley groats 125 



Legumes - - 250 



Minimum Ration for Passenger Ships. 



Sugar - -65 grammes. 



or treacle - - 97 



Tea - - 8 



or coffee or cocoa 14 



Salt --- 8 



Mustard 2 



Pepper i 



Vinegar or pickles 20 c.c. 



In prisons the object is to give the minimum amount of the plainest 

 food which will suffice to maintain the prisoners in health. A ' hard 

 work ' prison diet in Munich was found to contain 104 grammes proteins, 

 38 grammes fat, and 521 grammes carbo-hydrates; a 'no-work' diet, 

 only 87 grammes proteins, 22 grammes fat, and 305 grammes carbo- 

 hydrates. Here we recognize the influence of price; carbon can be 

 much more cheaply obtained in vegetable carbo-hydrates than in 



