A Yale physiologist reports a long series of feeding experiments run in 1903 and 1904 on professional men, soldiers detailed by the War Department, and university athletes, all placed on diets far lower in protein than the standards of the day. Daily records of food, nitrogen balance, body weight and strength fill page after page of tables.
A landmark in nutrition science, of interest to historians of diet and medicine; it is a record of research, not a diet to follow. Download the free EPUB.