METABOLISM. 



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The quantity of proteid metabolism in starvation depends upon the 

 amount of fat in the body. In the fast of Sued, Luciani found that a 

 nitrogen excretion of 16.23 grams decreased on the first day of fasting 



Fig. 178d- Catabolism During a Seven Day Fast. (BENEDICT.) 



to 13.8, on the seventeenth day to 7.8 grams, on the twenty-second day 

 to 4,75 grams, on the twenty-eighth day to 5.6 grams. 



Paton gives the following table to show that during the first day 

 or two of a fast the individual uses proteids and fats as usual, but 

 gradually he uses less and less proteid each day. This was the case in 

 the fast for thirty days by Succi : 



