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Show ADULTS EXCEED j I PRDTIEN SUPPLY ! WEEDED IN BODY I ! ( ! Expert Tells Health Work-! Work-! ers That Nitrogen Balance ! Is Result of Method in Measuring Food Values ! ! -.i:VKI.ANI . Oct. t.rYom j I f. or to five times as much protlm , food is consumed us is necessary fo I !h- minimum needs of the average. adult hosed on the total consumption, I of pent ten in the fnilrd States til-! :(! d into the population. IT. H. H.j I Mitchell, associated professor of ant- nial nulriiion of the L'nivcrs.ty if 111:-I I nois, declared before the f""d n-id j I .lrusi section of the annual convention ! of the American l'ubltc Health asso-; i ciat on. i "With children, however, the s'tua- I lion is imicli different and requires at- lenlioii." Hr. Mitchell said. "I'ro-J tlcns :.s contrasted with cai:bohyora1c' and fats are Known to possess differ- j ent values In nutrition" . j The nitrotrn balance" method con- ( ducted under certain definite condi-, tiers was f.ivorid by Dr. Mitchell to measure P roti.-n lali i Th' of 1 1 v est iK.it '"'lis tT mixed pioticns o; fomls by this method have brought out two conclusions, he said. These, jaie: I That the hioloKlr.il value of prntierj depends to a considerable extent on, the leci'l at which they are fed. 'I That In general the proltens of c rtif'cicnt foods do hot differ preallv In nutriment values, as is currently SUppoS 1. I A feature of .today's session was tb; Illustration of the manner in which the Shepurd-Towner bill will be ad-I ministered in the various states. I r. , l lorence I.. McKay of Now York said the actual work undertaken In New! Yoik Includes emergency nursing j service. urKatur.atiort, service. surves. . nutrition service, lectures utid lualth consultants for infauls and children 1 and prospective mothers. An Import-i ant fictor is increasinn the effu-iency 1 of vital statistics b- which it is pow- j si'.'c to KaiiKtt the actual conditions. ' Kather than to do the actual work I itself it is the policy ;o stimulate lo- cal communities to undertake their! own work for innthers and children.! she added. 1 |