Beef and Bread
have the following composition:
| Lean beef. | Wheaten Bread. | |
|---|---|---|
| Water | 77 | 40 |
| Fibrin or gluten | 19 | 7 |
| Fat | 3 | 1 |
| Starch | 0 | 50 |
| Salt and other minerals | 1 | 2 |
| ———— | ———— | |
| 100 | 100 |
This shows that the main difference between beef and bread is that the meat contains no starch, and nearly three times as much of the muscle making fibrin as the proportion of gluten (which is similar in many respects) in wheaten bread.
The water, climate, season, age, habits, etc., all have to do with the choice of food we eat. Besides the quantity of nourishment contained in the food, there is also the question of the ease and completeness with which it can be digested and assimilated. It is not always fat eaters who are the fattest.