A NORMAL DIET 



DIETARY STUDIES Con'.inued 



GERMANY 



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The first column gives the date of the study if that is available, ii 

 not that of the publication and the next, the name of the author or other 

 authority for the data. The succeeding columns give, in order, some idea 

 of the social and economic status of the subjects, the number of studies, 

 the total number of individuals, the scale of conversion to "man equiva- 

 lents," the number of these, the average weight of an adult male and 

 the average duration of the studies. These fall into two classes, accord- 

 ing as the data for the composition of the food were obtained by actual 



These include the results of questionnaires on family budgets. Some of the additional 

 difficulties in drawing conclusions from some of the calculations that have been made 

 from some of the Board of Trade data are discussed in footnote 21 to Table IV, p. 378. 

 However, cursory examination of the French monographs and of the reports 

 of the Board of Trade indicates that more detailed consideration would only cor- 

 roborate the conclusions indicated by the data presented in this chapter. 



