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Show CONCERNING THE DIET. What You Kat Matters Little If You Attain At-tain Certain Kvaulta. "The human tstem requires a certain cer-tain quantity of carbon and of nitrogen I to keep up tho equilibrium of health," remarked a physician to a New York Telegram reporter. "The healthy man needs 300 grains of nitrogen and 4,600 grains of carljon daily, to supply tho waste that takes place during the twenty-four hours. Ho should select a diet which can supply as nearly as possible the proper amount of each of these substances. It matters little whether ho eat-s vegetables or meat, so long as he achieves the result. It is very possiblo, as vegetarians contend, con-tend, that a well-selected vegetable diet is capable of bringing the greater number of individuals to the highest physical development of which they are capable, but it would bo difficult for tho majority of workingmen to get tho proper diet of vegetables all the year round, and a mixed diet, partly vegetable and partly animal, is most sensible. "Most men eat too much meat. I know some people who live almost entirely upon it. Tho proper proportion pro-portion is about one part of meut to three of vegetables. One thousand grains of meat contain con-tain about 100 grains of carbon and :tOO of nitrogen. Therefore to obtain tho 4. (i00 grains of carbon which a a man's system requires no less than six and a half pounds of meat must be consumed daily, while the requisite 300 grains of nitrogen are contained in one and a half pounds of meat, consequently consequent-ly three or four times more meat must bo consumed to spuply tho carbon than is necessary to furnish tho nitrogen. "One thousand grains of bread contain con-tain 300 grains of carbon and ten of nitrogen. In other words, to obtain tho requisite amount of nitrogen for the system on a diet of bread alone one would have to consume exactly double the quantity of carbon required. A short calculation shows that two pounds of bread and three-quarters of a pound of meat just about compensate for the daily drain on the systen of a healthy man. ' 'Beef and mutton usually contain 15 per cent of carbonaceous and 20 per cent of nitrogeneous material. Potatoes Pota-toes have 2-t per cent carbonaceous and 2 of nitrogeneous material, very nearly the proportion the system requires. re-quires. Oatmeal has 66 carbonaceous and 16 nitrogeneous parts, and, taken ulone, is a bettor article of food than boof as regains the roquiroiionts of the system. Skinimod milk contains ear bon and nitrogen in about equal quantities,, quan-tities,, 'Oatmeal and good milk and bread, for breakfast, with beef and potatoes for dlnnor, form about the best diet that can be devised." |