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The Nepalese also eats largely of the better-class cereals wheat, 

 maize, and good millets. 



DIET VII. NEPALESE CULTIVATORS (COOLIES OF POORER CLASSES). 

 Protein, 110 to 115 grins. Heat value, 3,000 to 3,200 calories. 



Only a small percentage of the protein is derived from an 

 animal source, usually 8 ounces of meat once or twice a week. 



These dietaries, contrasted with those of the rice-eating 

 Bengali, are very superior not only in the gross quantities of 

 protein consumed, but also in the manner in which the total 

 protein is made up. They serve to illustrate the general law, 

 that where there is free choice of food, hard muscular labour 

 demands a liberal supply, and insists, when financially possible, 

 on a generous proportion of an animal protein in the daily 

 dietary. 



As might be expected, the dietaries of these hill-tribes permits 

 of a high level of nitrogenous interchange. From the results of 

 investigations the following conclusions were arrived at with 

 regard to the degree of protein metabolism* obtained with 

 different dietaries : 



Nitrogen Metabolized per 

 Kilo of Body Weight. 



Nepalese Bhutias 0*42 grm. 



Tibetan and Bhutan . . 0-35 ,, 



Sikhim Bhutias 0-25 



Nepalese 0-18 to 0-25 grm. 



Anglo-Indian and Eurasian students . . . . 0*196 grm. 



Other Anglo-Indian and Eurasian students .. 0-203 ,, 



Bengal students (residential Government hostel) 0-148 ,, 



Bengali students (private messes) .. .. .. 0-116 



Students and servants . . . . . . . . 0-111 to 0-115 grm. 



Two Bengali assistants . . . . . . . . 0*137 grm. 



Beharis 0-145 ,, 



These results should be contrasted with those obtained 

 on 



Nitrogen per Kilo of Body 



Weight Daily. 

 Scientific workers (Chittenden) 



Members of the Medical Corps (Chittenden) 



Athletes (Chittenden) 



Poorer classes in Japan (Oshima) 

 Average European (Voit) 



0-12 to 0-13 grm. 



0-177 grm. 

 0-270 



The significance of these results on physique and the general 

 well-being of the body will be discussed in another connection. 



* Scientific Memoirs, Government of India, No. 37, p. 222 ; also Memoir, 

 No. 34. 



