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THE reduction of the available supply of certain articles of diet, especially of meat, flour, sugar, and potatoes, has had the effect of changing to some extent the point of view with regard to economy in diet. While until recently economy in all things was desirable, it has now become necessary to exercise, in addition, special economy in the case of the four things mentioned above. This is due partly to deficiency in means of transport, but, in the case of potatoes, chiefly to bad crops. It must also be remembered that the large proportion of the population serving in the Army or Navy require more than they had in their previous occupations. For these reasons, it has been recommended by some that those who are well-to-do should endeavour to utilise the more costly articles of food, leaving a greater supply of the less costly, but restricted, articles for those who cannot afford the former. With regard to the Army rations, there is some reason to suppose that the allowance of 16 oz. of meat per day is unnecessarily large, at all events for men in the trenches; perhaps it may be the cause of certain diseas§s which are apt to occur, such as trench nephritis. This affection seems to have some relation to diet. The meat allowance might, with advantage, and probably with appreciation by the men, be exchanged for an equal energy-value in carbohydrate.
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BAYLISS, W. The New Food Orders . Nature 99, 128 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099128a0
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