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A Dietary Study of Five Halls of Residence for Students in Edinburgh
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
Summary of results
1. The diet of five halls of residence was studied. This represents the food of 1129·4 men for one day.
2. The average amount taken per man per day was: proteids, 143 grammes; fats, 138 grammes; carbohydrates, 511 grammes; with a fuel value of 3979 Calories.
3. In all the studies the proteid value is high. The animal proteid is 63 per cent, of the total proteid.
4. The average cost per man per day (exclusive of beverages and condiments) is 15·1 pence. Sixty-six per cent, of this is expended on animal food.
5. The amount of nutritive material per penny is much lower than that given in the study of the diet of Edinburgh labourers' families.
6. The waste varies considerably. The approximate cost of waste was from 2·4 per cent, to 7 per cent, of the total money spent on food.
7. The proteids and carbohydrates are higher than in the American college studies. As the fats are lower, the Calorific value is about the same. The amount of food taken is greatly in excess of that in Japanese students' dietaries.
8. The waste is only about one-half of that in the American studies of college residences.
9. The expenditure on food of 9s. 2d. per man per week seen in this study is probably about the average spent on a middle-class dietary.
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