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4*00; tomatoes, 3*37 ; monkey nuts, 94*00; hovis bread, 84*00 ; 
other breads, 10*00; nucoline, 9*50 ; quaker oats, 20*00; sugar, 
41*00; nut butter, 1*00; jam, 15*00; golden syrup, 0*90; 
cocoa, 0*50 ; coffee, 0*15; peas, 10*00; lentils, 4*70; onions, 
3*20; carrots, 0-20; radishes, 4*00; rhubarb, 4*00; biscuits, 
3*00; chocolate, 1*10; peppermints, 0*10; eggs, 0*30 ; condensed 
milk, 1*50; lemon squash, 1*00; nutta, 0*50; plasmon, 0*20; 
yeast, 0*07 ; bananas (dried), 0*40. 
The food-value of such a diet has been estimated by us, and 
it is found that its value is per man per diem : — 
Of the total energy, 8*5 per cent, is derived from animal food, 
and 91*5 from vegetable food. The cost of the diet for the six 
months was £8, 18s. lid., which is equal to 6s. lOd. per man 
per week, or ll*7d. per day. 
Even supposing that this diet is over-estimated by 10 per cent., 
it is still Gargantuan, yielding over 200 grs. of proteid and 5800 
Calories of energy. From the observations of Avsititkiski, of 
Dunlop upon prisoners, and of Noel Paton on dogs, it is almost 
certain that a great part of this enormous diet was not digested 
and absorbed, and was therefore not available. 
When putting together our results, we wrote to Mr H. as to 
the enormous amount of food consumed, and he writes, under 
date 5th February 1904 : — 
“ I must own, however, that I am a larger eater than most, 
indeed, a glutton. Everyone has his own physical vice, and I 
make up for abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, meat, 
and breakfasts, and for devotion to the morning cold tub, by 
overeating myself three or four evenings a week. I always read 
at meals, and this tends to make one go on feeding mechanically.” 
With this letter he sends details of the diet of himself and 
of his wife and three children from 1st April to 30th September 
1903. He says : — “ I do not think I eat quite so much 
now as in 1900. I cannot say I have ever suffered much in 
Proteids 
Fats 
Carbohydrates . 
Calories . 
230*3 grms. 
275*3 „ 
734*2 „ 
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