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dent that only such dishes make good food a

n salt, fat, and sugar; all these ingredient

ty per cent. of water, and yet a man must die, if he were to eat nothing but meat and to have no water, for the reason that t

contains precisely the same ingredients as the albumen; for we have seen before, and our readers are doubtless aware of it, that the mother's milk contains caseine, while it is entirely free of albumen. Hence, he who eats plenty of caseine, as do shepherds in Swit

meant various combinations of substances which are usually not considered articles of food, for example, the combinatio

do not get fat; while herbivorous animals fatten excessively, if provided with good mast, consisting of course but of plants. Yet fat is, for all this, by no means superfluous to our body. Man needs it, because it is the f

for the fat is formed in the body from sugar, and the small quantity of fat

starch is changed, when in the body, first to sugar and then to fat. The potato contains starch and serves its purpose well; it is necessar

essential to the body; moreover, it contains starch from which fat is produced. Therefore, by the mere addition of a little butter in order to make the formation of fat easier, and by drinking water

ns of feeding the body has been collected. In order to investigate the effect of the nutritive quali