Eating According to Sex.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue V, 31 January 1903, Page 303

Eating According to Sex.

The layman will be not a little astonished at the claim made by the L< udon “lameet” that the male human needs more food than the female, not only on account of his larger stature, but also because he is the

more katabolic of the two. The man tends to expend energy and tin woman to store it up in the form of fat; he burns the ’faster; this sexual difference shows itself in the ven blood; the man has a larger percentage of chromoctyes than the woman, showing that he needs a proportion-

ately larger quantity of oxygen in order to maintain this more active combustion. Moreover, weight for weight, his pulmonary capacity is greater than that of the woman, whose smaller respiratory need is further shown by the facility with vhich she can without discomfort

diminish her breathing power by means of the corset. Attention may be drawn to the fact that men are apt to lie larger meat eaters than women, just as they are. possibly in consequence of this very fact, more prone to drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco-

A RECENT AITKLAND WEDDING. WITHAM—CRCICKSIIANK. 1. The Bridal Party. 2. I'hc Bride and Bridegroom. See “Orange Blossorus.”