SO3 4 1E BOOKS OF THE W.P.;EK.
[I-Teeter this funding.sr. Rollos 'Ma J3004 rif tho Wag as haw cat Urn rsserosd for review to other forms.] The Fundamental Basis of Nutrition. By Graham Lusk. (Humphrey Milford. 2s. 6d. net.)—This little book containa the last anniversary address of the New York Academy of Medicine. It is published in order that "educated people may be able to obtain a better understanding of the principles of nutrition than is to be derived from current popular writings." We wish that Professor Lusk had expanded his lecture sufficiently to make it clearer than we fear it will be to the lay reader. ft is full of valuable information, and we are entirely in sympathy with the anther's proposal that it should be made compulsory for the manufacturers of "food- stuffs sold in packages " to state on the label the actual nutritive -value of the food expressed in terms of calorie:— 2,500 calories being the average daily need of a lean of sedentary occupation, and 3,000 or more that of a working man. The purchaser would then know just what he was getting for his money, apart from the questions of flavour and personal preference. Professor Lusk states that all the raw materials of a nutritive diet can be obtained in America at the daily oast of 10d. per head.
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