WE VARY IN WEIGHT HOURLY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue IV, 27 January 1900, Page 147

WE VARY IN WEIGHT HOURLY.

“It is strange to see what absurd fallacies occupy the popular mind.” says a writer in this month’s “Knowledge.” “It has been seriously asserted by many people that you are naturally lighter after a meal, and they have even gone the length of explaining this by the amount of gas that is devoleped from the food.” It is pointed out that the best way to discover the incorrectness of this notion is to take our weight at different intervals throughout a day. and the following table is given as the result of a series of experiments of this kind by a person weighing normally about eleven stones: — Average. lb. oz. 9 a.m.—Before breakfast. .155 8 10 a.m. —After breakfast 157 4 12 noon. —Before lunch 156 6 1 p.m. —After lunch 157 6 5 p.m. —Before dinner 156 12 (>i p.m.—After dinner 158 14 By these it will lie seen that we lose 3 pounds 6 ounces between night and morning; that we gain 1 pound 12 ounces by breakfast; that we again lose 14 ounces before lunch; that luneh puts on an average of 1 pound: that we again lose during the afternoon an average of 10 ounces; but that an ordinary dinner to healthy persons adds 2 pounds 2 ounces to their weight.