Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics / by Alexander Haig.

  • Alexander Haig
Date:
1906
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    this volume ; but I shall have much evidence to bring forward on the subject in the following pages. Further, by watching my own excretion of urea for many years (see details in “Uric Acid”), and on all kinds of diets, I have come to the conclusion that, given a sufficient amount of albu- minous food, which can be digested and meta- bolised into sufficient urea, I can produce force proportional to that urea, without much regard to the quantities of other non-albuminous foods taken. So that while sugar, starch and oil do, under certain conditions which I shall demonstrate pre- sently, affect to a small extent the production of urea and force from albumen, their influence is always indirect, and generally of so little import- ance that in a purely practical work like the present it may be neglected. We are now at once met by the question, how much urea and how much albumen are sufficient; and as most physiologists are agreed that good strength and nutrition in adult life can be main- tained with an amount of albumen producing about 34 grains of urea per lb. of body weight per day, and as my own researches (see “ Uric Acid,” p. 834, et seq.) are in substantial agreement with them, I shall adopt this standard without further con- sideration here.
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