The diet was limited to sucrose, potato starch, baking
powder, sodium chloride, ferric citrate, viosterol, carotene
(vitamin A), orange juice, citric acid, anise oil, liquid petrola
tum and milk practically freed of its fat. The daily protein
intake was derived from 3 quarts of the specially defatted
milk, taken as such, and the cottage cheese made from an
additional quart of the same milk. Sucrose provided the bulk
of the carbohydrate allowance but was supplemented by a
biscuit made from potato starch, skimmed milk, baking pow
der, salt and mineral oil. The mineral oil was added to serve
as shortening and to prevent constipation. Daily supplements
of 10 mg. of ferric citrate, 2.5 mg. of carotene, 0.02 cc. con
centrated viosterol in oil (8000 U.S.P. units vitamin D) and
the juice from one-half of a large orange were given to insure
an adequate supply of iron and of vitamins. That the diet
was of the extremely 'low-fat,' rather than the 'fat-free,'
type was recognized when the experiment was planned, but
experience with crude diets (Burr and Brown, unpublished
data) in studies on the rat had shown this to be satisfactory
for our purpose. The chief source of fat in the diet was the
skimmed milk.
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