The essentials of food / by Donald Stewart.

  • Stewart, Donald
Date:
1911
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Credit: The essentials of food / by Donald Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has arisen in the person of Chittenden, of Yale University, who attempted to put the question on a scientific basis. This man, Dr. Chittenden, is Professor of Physiology in Yale University, and Director of the Scientific School there. He induced five men, including himself, of the staff of Yale, to put themselves under his guidance, which they willingly did, and they were under strict rules of diet for from six to eighteen months. They were all trained men, and they knew very well what they were about. The summary of the results is so valuable that it shall be here given word for word :— “ A healthy man whose occupation is such as not to involve excessive muscular work, but whose activity is mainly mental rather than physical, though by no means excluding the latter, can live on a much smaller amount of proteid or albuminous food than is usually considered essential for life, without loss of mental or physical strength and vigour, and with maintenance of body and nitrogen equili- brium. This means that the ordinary pro- fessional man who leads an active and even strenuous life with its burden of care and