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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. HOW MUCH FOOD SHOULD YOU EAT? You may think that food requirements require-ments were measured in vitamins but before the discovery of vitamins the amount and kinds of food that should be eaten dai- ly were measured in calories. A calorie is a measured amount of heat, that is, the amount of heat required re-quired to raise one kilogram of water (a little over two pounds) one degree centigrade (which is about 2Vi degrees Fahrenheit). Thus Dr. Barton e average diet was made up of one part protein meat, eggs, fish, two parts fats butter, cream, fat meats and four parts starches bread, potatoes, pota-toes, fruits and vegetables. In calories this would mean about 400 of proteins, 800 of fats and 1,600 of vegetables and fruits daily for average man doing some work daily. This method of calorie measurement meas-urement is still in use. In an article on nutrition in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Eugene F. DuBois and William H. Chambers, New York city, state: The amount of heat given off by the resting man of average size (at complete rest and no digestion go- . ing on) is about equal to the heat of a 60-watt electric bulb or the name of an alcohol lamp about one inch high. A man exercising hard equals the heat of 10 such lamps. As most of us are not at complete rest all of the time, nor are we workinf hard all the time, the amount of food needed will depend upon how ihuch we rest and how hard we work. Thus one table of the number of calories needed by various trades is: Men: Tailor, 2,600; bookbinder, 3,000; shoemaker, 3,100; cabinetmaker, cabinet-maker, 3,500 to 3,600; stone mason, 4,700 to 5,200; wood sawyer, 5,500 to 6,000. There are other trades such as moulders or foundrymen, stokers, molten metal workers and others where 6,000 calories are needed need-ed daily. Women: Stenographer or office worker, 2,000 calories; seamstress with hand needle, 2,000; seamstress with machine, 2,100 to 2,300; bookbinder, book-binder, 2,100 to 2,300; household worker, 2,500 to 3,200; washer-women, 2,900 to 3,700. |