Delusions in diet, or, Parcimony in nutrition / by Sir James Crichton-Browne.

  • James Crichton-Browne
Date:
1910
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Credit: Delusions in diet, or, Parcimony in nutrition / by Sir James Crichton-Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BODY-WEIGHT CRITERION I’] level he has fixed. Quoting Kintaro a Japanese Oshima, he says: It is probably fair to infer that the amount of proteid in the dietary of the classes living largely on vegetable foods (and they constitute the larger part of the population) may not be far from 6o grammes per day.” But the body-weight of Oshima’s subjects was certainly on the average one-fourth less than Chittenden’s standard man of 70 kilograms, so that accepting Oshima’s figures and taking the criterion of body- weight which Chittenden invariably selects, their proteid consumption was in proportion to body-weight about 75 grammes a day, or one-fourth above Chittenden’s required intake. But the body-weight criterion in relation to food is not altogether trustworthy. The shape or build of the body must also be taken into consideration, and shape and build resolve themselves into a question of surface. The larger the surface of the body, the greater is the amount of heat lost by radiation, and the greater the Radiation, amount of food required to maintain its temperature. Taking, then, the extent of body surface in a short Japanese in