saving it to the utmost, while, at the same time, conserving
the safety of our own people.

III

RULES OF SAVING AND SAFETY

1. Let no family (of five persons) buy meat until it has bought three
quarts of milk, the cheapest protein food. Farmers should be urged to
meet this demand.

2. Save the cream and butter and eat oleomargarine and vegetable oils.
Olive oil or cottonseed oil, taken with cabbage, lettuce, or beet-tops,
is excellent food, in many ways imitating milk.

3. Eat meat sparingly, rich and poor, laborer and indolent alike. Meat
does not increase the muscular power. When a person is exposed to great
cold, meat may be recommended, for it warms the body more than any other
food. In hot weather, for the same reason, it causes increased sweating
and discomfort. In general, twice as much meat is used as is now right,
for to produce meat requires much fodder which might better be used for
milk production.

4. Eat corn bread. It saved our New England ancestors from starvation.
If we eat it we can send wheat to France. Eat oatmeal.

5. Drink no alcohol. In many families 10 per cent. of the income is
spent for drink, or a sum which, if spent for real food, would greatly
improve the welfare of the family.

6. Eat corn syrup on cereals. It will save the sugar. Eat raisins in
rice pudding, for raisins contain sugar.

7. Eat fresh fish.

8. Eat fruit and vegetables.

Since the total energy for the maintenance of our bodies can be measured
in calories, and since this energy serves for the maintenance of the
nations of the world, is it not surprising how little even educated
people know about the subject?

INDEX

Alcoholic beverages, 41

Appetite, 23, 35, 41

Balanced ration, biological analysis of, 9

Basal metabolism, definition of, 24
of boys, 26, 29
of men, 26
table, 28
of women, 27

Butter, 8

Cabbage, 7

Calorie, definition, 24

Calories, cost of, 35

Calorimeter, 24

Cane sugar, 41

Carbohydrates and muscular work, 40

Chittenden, 16

Corn and pellagra, 10
in Italy, 7
quantity available, 11
reasons for using, 10
syrup, 41

Cream, use of, 11

Diet, a balanced, 7
a proper, 23
Italian, 7
of purified food-stuffs, 9

DuBois, measurement of surface area, 26

Economy in diet, 8

Emaciation, metabolism in, 39

Energy of sun, relation of life to, 23

Fasting,