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Preliminary Note regarding an Experimental Investigation into the Effects of Varying Diets upon Growth and Nutrition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
Summary
I. The use of an excessive meat diet in rats induces a deterioration in the health of the animals. This deterioration is shown in (a) an imperfect physical development, (b) a loss of reproductive power, (c) defective lactation, and (d) a high mortality in early life in the second generation of meat-fed subjects.
II. The recuperative powers of these deteriorated animals, on a normal diet, is very striking.
III. In animals deprived of their ovaries, the minimum amount of proteid required is less than in normal females.
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page 87 note * I am indebted to Dr F. H. A. Marshall and Mr W. A. Jolly for these animals.
page 90 note * On 27/9/05 the female rat gave birth to a litter of eight.
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