QUANTITY OF FOOD 



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Amount of Calories Required per Day. Not all people require 

 the same number of Calories of food. The following table shows 

 the relation of different occupations to the amount of food required. 



CALORIES OF FOOD CONSUMED DAILY * 



Table is derived from data produced by Becket and Hamalainen of the Uni- 

 versity of Helsingfors, Finland, from actual experiment with individuals 

 alternately resting and working at their respective trades while in the 

 " respiration calorimeter." 



MEN 



WOMEN 



From "How to Live." Copyright, Funk & Wagnalls, 1915. 



