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This article is the second in a series on the Nutritional Requirements of the Normal Person. The series is being prepared by a number of authors acting in cooperation with the Committee on Nutrition of the Canadian Medical Association.—Editor.
The first article can be found in the Journal, 1938, 38: 277.