| Average (154 lbs.) | Calories |
| Man at rest (asleep) | 65 |
| Sitting up (awake) | 100 |
| Light exercise | 170 |
| Moderate exercise | 190 |
| Severe exercise | 450 |
| Very severe exercise | 600 |
FOOTNOTES:
[11] These are from Food and Dietetics (Norton), published by the American School of Home Economics, Chicago. They are used in a number of schools of Domestic Science and in the Dietetic kitchens in hospitals.
[12] Chemical Composition of American Food Materials, Atwater and Bryant, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bull. 28.
[13] Experiments on Losses in Cooking Meats (1900-03), Grindley, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bull. 141.
[14] Laboratory number of specimen, as per Experiments on Losses in Cooking Meats.
CHAPTER X
DIET IN ABNORMAL CONDITIONS
In the dietetic treatment of any disordered organ, the object must be to give that organ as much rest from its regular work as is consistent with keeping up the general nutrition of the system. The stomach and intestines and liver are so closely allied that, when one is affected, the others are liable to affection also, and the dietetic treatment is regulated accordingly.
In abnormal conditions it is necessary to say that the food must be regulated according to the case. Yet, broadly speaking, a diet largely of protein, which is digested in the stomach, rests the intestines and stimulates the liver, and a diet largely of carbohydrates rests the stomach, because the gastric juice is not active in starch digestion.
When the body is not in normal condition, because certain elements are lacking in the blood, these elements must be supplied in larger proportions in the food, and the case is one for a food chemist, or for one who has made food conditions a study.