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DIETARY STUDIES Continued 



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sumption of men of average weight, 70 kilos, engaged in moderate work 

 in the city of Munich, he concluded that a normal diet for such a man 

 should contain 118 grams of protein, 5G grains of fat and 500 grams of 

 carbohydrate. Substitution of as much as 350 grams of the carbohydrate 

 by an isodynamic amount of fat was considered desirable. This is known 

 as Volt's standard. As Dunluce and Greenwood say, "It has enjoyed a 

 vogue which is not so much due to the number or accuracy of the laboratory 

 experiments carried out by Voit as to this investigator's high and well- 

 deserved reputation." However, the necessity of so large an amount of 

 protein has been vigorously denied and as vigorously affirmed. The ques- 

 tion will be considered later. 



Some of the evidence is contained in Table IV, which gives a sum- 

 mary of some of the results obtained in what seem to be some of 

 the more important studies of people on their accustomed diets made 

 since Voit's time. Most of these were made on the poorer classes of the 



