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Show TEST OF FOOD EFFECTS ' ON THE HUMAN BODY Washington, May 17. To determine determ-ine whether roast beef produces inoro energy In the human body than cabbage, cab-bage, whether baked beans In this respect re-spect surpass potatoox, and so on, through a long lUt of foods, the department de-partment of agriculture Is conduct- j Ing a series of novel experiments. The Instrumentality being employed Is a machine known as a calorimeter I and a human being who submits to th'' "torture" of being fed anil sifting In a glass cage while the food energy l-i recorded Around the Inside of the abr!-i abr!-i meter, which Is a glass, air tight mni-I mni-I partment ahout the size of a small I steamer stateroom, runs a system of pipes filled with coll water. The temperature of the water Is 1 carefully noted, the heat generated by the body In the process of assimilating assimilat-ing the food causing the water t" become be-come warmer,. Oi'ly one kind of food I? given to the subject at a time. One experiment requires sever:: I hours, or sometimes longer, according to the time required to digest til" fof.d The experiments so fur have been to determine the relative l-.e.-u producing produc-ing energy of f'Utv and starchy food;.. Several months will be spent In making mak-ing the tests. |