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DIETETICS

  

suitable combinations of the ordinary sorts of wholesome food materials make a healthful diet. On the other hand, some foods are of particular value at times, aside from their use for nourishment. Fruits and green vegetables often benefit people greatly, not as nutriment merely, for they may have very little actual nutritive material, but because of fruit or vegetable acids or other substances which they contain, and which sometimes serve a most useful purpose.

Table VI.Amounts of Nutrients and Energy Furnished for One Shilling in Food Materials at Ordinary Prices.
Food Materials as Purchased. Prices
per ℔
One Shilling will buy
Total Food
materials.
Available Nutrients. Fuel
Value.
Protein. Fat. Carbo-
hydrates.
  s.d. Calories.
           
Beef, round 010 1·20 ·22 ·14 · · 1,155
  081/2 1·41 ·26 ·17 · · 1,235
  05 2·40 ·44 ·29 · · 2,105
           
Beef, sirloin 010 1·20 ·19 ·20 · · 1,225
  09 1·33 ·21 ·22 · · 1,360
  08 1·50 · · · · · · · ·
  05 2·40 · · · · · · · ·
             
Beef, rib 09 1·33 ·19 ·19 · · 1,200
  071/2 1·60 · · · · · · · ·
  041/2 2·67 · · · · · · · ·
             
Mutton, leg 09 1·33 ·20 ·20 · · 1,245
  05 2·40 ·37 ·35 · · 2,245
             
Pork, spare-rib 09 1·33 ·17 ·31 · · 1,645
  07 1·71 ·22 ·39 · · 2,110
             
Pork, salt, fat 07 1·71 ·03 1·40 · · 6,025
  05 2·40 ·04 1·97 · · 8,460
             
Pork, smoked ham 08 1·50 ·20 ·48 · · 2,435
  041/2 2·67 ·36 ·85 · · 4,330
             
Fresh cod 04 3·00 ·34 ·01 · · 710
  03 4·00 ·45 ·01 · · 945
             
Salt cod 031/2 3·43 ·54 ·07 · · 1,370
  010 1·20 ·07 ·01 ·04 275
             
Milk, whole, 4d. a qt. 02 6·00 ·19 ·23 ·30 1,915
3d. a qt. 011/2 8·00 ·26 ·30 ·40 2,550
2d. a qt. 01 12·00 ·38 ·46 ·60 3,825
             
Milk, skimmed, 2d. a qt. 01 12·00 ·40 ·03 ·61 2,085
             
Butter 16 ·67 ·01 ·54 · · 2,320
  13 ·80 ·01 ·64 · · 2,770
  10 1·00 ·01 ·81 · · 3,460
             
Margarine 04 3·00 · · 2·37 · · 10,080
             
Eggs, 2s. a dozen 14 ·75 ·10 ·07 · · 475
11/2s. a dozen 10 1·00 ·13 ·09 · · 635
1s.a dozen 08 1·50 ·19 ·13 · · 950
             
Cheese 08 1·50 ·38 ·48 ·04 2,865
  07 1·71 ·43 ·55 ·04 3,265
  05 2·40 ·60 ·77 ·06 4,585
           
Wheat bread 011/8 10·67 ·76 ·13 5·57 12,421
           
Wheat flour 013/5 7·64 ·67 ·07 5·63 12,110
  011/2 8·16 ·72 ·07 6·01 12,935
           
Oatmeal 012/5 8·39 1·11 ·54 5·54 14,835
  011/2 8·16 1·08 ·53 5·39 14,430
           
Rice 013/4 6·86 ·45 ·02 5·27 10,795
           
Potatoes 002/3 18·00 ·25 ·02 2·70 5,605
  001/2 24·00 ·34 ·02 3·60 7,470
           
Beans 02 6·00 1·05 ·10 3·47 8,960
           
Sugar 13/4 6·86 · · · · 6·86 12,760

The proper observance of the second rule mentioned requires information regarding the demands of the body for food under different circumstances. To supply this information is one purpose of the effort to determine the so-called dietary standards

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