ISIDOR GREENWALD 



culated them to be only 104 and 3336 for the country as a whole. Claas- 

 sen's figures agree fairly well with those of the Eltzbacher commission, 

 but the latter show an increased consumption of wheat at the expense of 

 rye and a lessened meat consumption in the interval of five or six years. 



The total energy consumption is over 3400 calories in all countries. 

 The average protein intake is always more than 100 grams. Meat, 

 including fish, poultry and eggs, supplies roughly 20 per cent of the 

 calories and somewhat more than this fraction of the protein; milk and 

 its products, from 13 to 17 per cent of the calories and 14 to 25 per 

 cent of the protein and the cereals, from 35 to 40 per cent of both calories 

 and protein. 



The greatest variation is found in the nature of the cereal used. In 

 Great Britain and in France, this is almost exclusively wheat; in this 

 country, maize plays a not inconsiderable role; but in Germany, particu- 

 larly among the rural population, rye is used almost exclusively. (See 

 also pages 365/376, 377.) 



Except in the United States, in Paris and in the German cities, po- 

 tatoes furnish 10 or 12 per cent of the total energy content and a some- 



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TABLE IV. SYNOPSIS 



See Table H. 



