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Show Sugar as Pood. "A lump of sugar represent!) about as much nutriment as an ounce- of potato, but wlillo the potato will bo eaten only because hun.cr prompts, tlio sugai, because be-cause of its taste, may bo taken when tho appetite lias been fully satisfied. "Sugar is a usoful and valuable food. It must, however, bo renieuiboted that it is a concentrated food raid therefore, should bo eaten in modern quantities. Futlier, like other concentinled foods, sugar scorns best litted for neHimilation by tho body when supplied with other materials whicli dlluto Hor give it the neccssnry bulk. "Persons of active habits and good digestion di-gestion will add sugar to their food almost al-most at plcasuio without Inconvonionce, while thoso of Bcndoutary,lifo of delicate digestion, or of n tendency to corpulency corpul-ency would do hotter to uso sugar very moderately. It is generally assumed that 4 or 5 ounces of sugar per day is as much as it is well for tho average adult to eat under ordinaryconditions." Fo HnyB Funnels' Bulletin No. 03, on-tilled on-tilled 'Sugar as Food," prepaired by MrB, Mary 11 humid Ablo, under tho supervision su-pervision of tho Ofllco of Experiment Stations. Tills bulletin shows that tlio Hiigllsh-' speaking people nio the largest consumer consum-er of sugar. It also tieatsof tho chem- ical composition of augar, its food valuo, ' uso in dietaries of adults and childron, and tho sources of cune sugar, |