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IN 1919 the Carnegie Institution of Washington published a comprehensive report in which Prof. F. G. Benedict and his colleagues remarked that “it is indeed surprising that after 15 years' search for a nutritional level with man markedly different from that of the normal individual, such a level should not have been found in all the researches conducted by this and other laboratories”.
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Dufton, A. F., Lancet, 231, 1535 (1936).
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DUFTON, A. Human Vitality and Efficiency. Nature 151, 476 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151476b0
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