Abstract
IT has been announced in the Press that the Ministry of Food intends to grant extra rations to manual workers from some date after April 7. The extra ration will not foe ordinary butcher's meat, but bacon; and the eligibility of applicants will fee determined by sub-committees of the local Food Control Committees, to which the Food Ministry will issue a classification of those persons entitled to extra food. The motive of this proposal is evidently sound from the scientific point of view. Considerable difficulties are, however f likely to arise in practice owing to the lack of exact knowledge respecting the energy needs of different kinds of industrial work. Relatively few experiments have been made and published, those of Amar upon metal filers being the best known. It is to be hoped that the scientific advisers of the Food Ministry will organise physiological investigations to elucidate disputed points. Complete, calorimetric measurements are, of course, impracticable, but sufficiently precise results can be reached through a study of the respiratory metabolism by Zuntz's method, the apparatus needed for which is portable.
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Food Rations for Manual Workers and Scientific Laboratories . Nature 101, 72–73 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101072b0
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