Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1912 — MAY ALMOST LIVE ON ‘SPUDS’ [ARTICLE]

MAY ALMOST LIVE ON ‘SPUDS’

DietetloN Expert Says One Can Exist on potatoes by Adding Nitro--1 gen or Protein. Paris, France. —Dr. Fletcher, the dietetic expert, who has been stopping in Copenhagen, has finished a course of living on potatoes and margar lasteri*K<4aya. Th« object was to prove that a man can live comfortably and do reasonable work on a diet* of potatoes plus a email quantity of nitrogen or protein. One thousand five hundred drams of potatoes a day and 250 drams of protein constituted tbe entire nourishment which Dr. Fletcher took. The American minister to Denmark, Dr. M. F. Egan, has been observing experiments in the laboratory of Dr. Hinhedes on the results of various

vegetable diets. The tests made by Dr. Hinhedes were similar to onesi made at Tale. Dr. Egan proposes to send a report of his observations to his government.