Diet Tables - What Do You Need For A Normal Diet

For the maintenance of health in adults living in the climate of the United Kingdom.

Each diet table contains all the essential elements of nutrition, in forms, quantities and proportions necessary to the maintenance of health. The tables have been made complete without Alcohol, leaving this to be ordered or not, according to circumstances. But, if fermented liquors are added to any diet table, the quantity of carbon which they contain must be borne in mind. (See Table X., Chapter VIII (Fermented Liquors).)

It will be observed that the totals of the corresponding columns of the analyses are nearly the same in all the diet tables, showing the important fact that all the essentials of a normal diet may be equally secured in a diet that is simple and cheap and in one that is complicated and expensive.

In all diets Salt must be used, and in those which do not include Potatoes, some other Potash-vegetable, or Fruit, or Cresses, or Lime or Lemon juice must be taken. (See Table V.)

Diet Table 1

Diet Table 2

Diet Table 3

Diet Table 4

Diet Table 5

Diet Table 6

Diet Table 7

Diet Table 8

Diet Table 9

Diet Table 10

Diet Table 11