March 20,1904

Breakfast , 7.45 a.m. - One cup of coffee, 137.5 grams; cream, 30.5 grams; sugar, 9 grams.

Dinner, 1.30 p.m. - Stewed chicken, 50 grams (less than 2 ounces); mashed potato, 131 grams; biscuit, 40 grams; butter, 13 grams; chocolate pudding, 106 grams; one small cup of coffee; sugar, 12 grams; cheese crackers, 29 grams.

Supper, 6.30 p.m. - Lettuce sandwiches, 56 grams; biscuit, 35 grams; butter, 6 grams; one cup of tea; sugar, 7 grams; sponge cake, 47 grams; sliced oranges, 82 grams.

Fuel value of this food, 1708 calories.

March 21, 1904

Breakfast , 7.45 a.m. - Coffee, 119 grams; sugar, 9 grams; cream, 30 grams.

Lunch, 1.30 p.m. - One shredded wheat biscuit, 31 grams; cream, 116 grams; wheat gems, 33 grams; butter, 7 grams; cup of tea; sugar, 10 grams; cream cake, 53 grams.

Dinner - Pea soup, 114 grams; lamb chop, 24 grams (less than one ounce Troy); boiled sweet potato, 47 grams; wheat gems, 76 grams; butter, 13 grams; cream cake, 52 grams; cup of coffee; sugar, 10 grams; cheese crackers, 16 grams.

March 23,1904

Breakfast, 7.45 a.m. - Coffee, 103 grams; cream, 30 grams; sugar, 10 grams.

Lunch, 1.30 p.m. - Creamed codfish, 64 grams; potato balls, 54 grams; biscuit, 44 grams; butter, 22 grams; tea, 120 grams; sugar, 10 grams; wheat griddle cakes, 133 grams; maple syrup, 108 grams.

Dinner, 6.30 p.m. - Creamed potato, 85 grams; biscuit, 53 grams; butter, 15 grams; apple-celery-lettuce salad, 50 grams; apple pie, 127 grams; coffee, 67 grams; sugar, 8 grams; cheese crackers, 17 grams.

Fuel value of food, 1454 calories.

June 27, 1904

Breakfast - Coffee, 112 grams; cream, 22 grams; sugar, 10 grams.

Lunch - Roast lamb, 9 grams; baked potato, 90 grams; wheat gems, 47 grams; butter, 12 grams; sugar, 25 grams; iced tea, 250 grams; vanilla eclair, 47 grams.

Dinner - Lamb chop, 32 grams; asparagus, 49 grams; butter, 17 grams; creamed potato, 107 grams; bread, 35 grams; lettuce-orange salad, with mayonnaise dressing, 150 grams; cream cheese, 12 grams; crackers, 21 grams; coffee, 63 grams; sugar, 9 grams.

Fuel value of the food, 1984 calories.

These are merely given as specimen meals and were weighed out while undergoing special tests during the experiment. There appears to be a good variety, but viewed by the average eater would seem to be quite lacking in quantity. Prof. Chittenden remarks, you remember: Commence to live on them and they soon come to fully satisfy your cravings. Living thus, you rise from the table not dull and oppressed, but feeling good and ready for work.

The next group in Prof. Chittenden's experiments was group two, - thirteen volunteers from the Hospital Corps, United States Army. Before coming to New Haven these men were representatives of the moderate worker. They worked for six months in the gymnasium, daily except Sundays, and did the usual amount of work besides as members of their corps. They ranged in age from twenty-one to forty-three years, and were of different nationalities.

These men arose at 6.45 a.m. and were weighed; 7.15, breakfast. Until 9 a.m. they were engaged at various duties; 9 to 11 a.m., gymnasium work; 12 m., dinner; 1 p.m., drill or a walk; 2 p.m., relief from drill, etc.; 2.30 p.m., instruction in duties as nurses, etc.; 3.30 p.m., relief from instruction; 5 p.m., supper; 5.30 p.m., retreat roll-call; 10 p.m., all men in bed. Saturdays, drill and instruction omitted in afternoon. Sundays, no gymnasium work. There were some additional duties from day to day. Surely these men put in a pretty full day of fairly hard and continuous work and this was kept up for six months.

Careful details of the work and the results on the men were made and kept, just as in Prof. Chittenden's case. The results were equally assuring as they were in his case, - viz., the ability to live and thrive on the lower nitrogen intake.

Here is a risume of the report of Dr. William G. Anderson, director of the Yale University gymnasium:

The members of the squad were called to the floor each morning as soon after 9.30 as possible. For twenty minutes they were put through a series of setting-up exercises and body-building movements; then followed exercises on the apparatus, such as bars, rings, ladders, etc. The exercises were progressive as to duration, force, extent, and number of movements. At the end of six months the men were being put through gymnastics that were exacting and fatiguing. As the progress was carefully made, the men did not suffer from soreness to any marked degree. They gained in accuracy and grace of movement, and in skill and courage as well. There was some loss of weight, but this was looked for, as some of the men were overweight when they commenced. The oldest man lost the most.

At the end of the six months the hearts and lungs of the men were in good shape, and as a body the men were in better shape at the end than when they commenced, and this on a diet heretofore thought impossible, for men engaged as these were, to thrive on.

Three months after they had left New Haven and gone to St. Louis for other duty, they wrote to Prof. Chittenden, saying they were then in first-class condition, were eating very little meat, and were willing to undertake another test.

These men ate the regular three meals a day of the laboring man, - breakfast, dinner and supper.

January 14, 1904

Breakfast Boiled hominy, 150 grams; milk, 125 grams; sugar, 30 grams; butter, 10 grams; bread, 30 grams; coffee, one cup.

Dinner Split pea soup (thick), 200 grams; bread, 75 grams; mashed potatoes, 100 grams; pickles, 30 grams; coffee, one cup; pie, 120 grams.

Supper Suet pudding, 150 grams; apple sauce, 125 grams; crackers, 25 grams; tea, one cup.

Total nitrogen, 7.412 grams. Fuel value, 2000 calories.

This, it will be seen, is quite a light diet as ordinarily viewed. It is a fair specimen of the daily diet for six months, some being a little higher and some a little lower.