TALL MEN NEED MORE FOOD
If two men are of the same .weight, but one of them is short and fat and the other is very tall and thin—which one needs.-the most, food, the most calories? asks th«
"World Magazine," New York. Dr. Takahiya, of Japan, has discovered that the tall, thin man needs many more of the heat-producing calories than does tho fat one.. It n.U depends on the total area —not weight—of a. person's body. The greater the urea ths more calories are needed. Dr. Takahlra has devised a formula fof rinding out what the area of anyone's body is. With the aid of some friend who knows algebra the following formula can be applied, and it can be found who among any given group needs the mo6t calories:—Tho area of the body is equal t» W0.425 x HO. 725 x 42.46. "W" here means body weight in kilograms, and "H?' height of the body in centimetres. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 4
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159TALL MEN NEED MORE FOOD Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 4
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