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ROBERT WOOD KEETON, M.D.; DOROTHY DICKSON, A.B.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;51(6):890-902.

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In planning reducing diets for obese patients, the aim should be to facilitate the loss of stored fat without damaging the body structure. Older investigators¹ advocated high protein diets, but did not agree on the effects of such diets on nitrogen equilibrium. Mason² expressed the belief that it is unnecessary to maintain obese patients in nitrogen equilibrium, since serious losses of nitrogen do not occur. More recently³ he has pointed out the strong tendency of such patients to conserve nitrogen, and he stated that patients who lose weight most rapidly also lose more nitrogen per day. Strang, McClugage and Evans⁴ observed early small losses of nitrogen and later an equilibrium when small quantities of carbohydrates were added to low caloric diets.

Because of the rather prevalent view among clinicians that undernutrition subjects the body to bacterial invasion and overnutrition protects against infections, it is important to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
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From the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Presented in part at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Central Society for Clinical Research, Chicago, Nov. 20, 1931.

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