In a note accompanying the ordinary diet table it is officially stated that this "table gives the four classes of solid constituents in substantially the fol¬ lowing proportions : Nitrogenous or plastic material, about one hundred and forty grams ; fat, about sixty-two grams ; carbo¬ hydrates, (starch, sugar, etc.,) about four hundred and fifty grams, and salines, about twenty-six grams ; and with about two thousand and two hundred and