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bread was included) and to the values reported by us in our first pub- 

 lication.* 



Inspection of Table 5 indicates that the difference between the 

 amount of food eaten in general at the noon meal or lunch and that 

 at the second meal or dinner is by no means uniform, so far as the air- 

 drj' weight, the protein content, and the energy content are concerned. 

 In the majority of case? the values for the lunch are lower than those 

 for the dinner, and yet there are a number of instances, such as on 

 April 30, May 2, and May 17, where the reverse is true. Thus, on May 

 17 till" lunch contained 30 grams of protein and 804 calories, whereas the 

 dinner contained but 16 grams of protein and 462 calories. In such in- 

 stances the main meal was served at noon, because the cook was to be 

 absent in the afternoon. It is clear that the mere designation of a meal 

 as lunch or dinner does not in itself serve to indicate whether the meal 

 was a light or a heavy one. On the average, in these two meals to- 

 gether these women students recei\'ed 42.5 grams of protein and 1260 



^I'.cnedict :nul Fair. loc. cit. 



Table 6. — Analyses of composite samples of lunch and dinner 

 at Sororiti/ House S-2 



(Duplicates of meals analyzed separately — See Table 5) 



' One slice of whole wheat bread was included in each .sample before it was ground. 



' Sunday. No lunch served. 



' Not including Samples 539, 570, 601, and 631. 



