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The glucose tolerance was not significantly altered by a very high carbohydrate intake, over a period of 7 days. After 7 days on a high fat diet, the response to the glucose tolerance test was typical of diabetes mellitus; the tolerance fapidly returned to the usual type, after return to the balanced diet. Since the diet can so markedly influence the tolerance, this should be kept in mind in glucose tolerance studies. The urea nitrogen and total non-protein nitrogen vary markedly with different dietary conditions. This fact is of clinical importance. The fasting blood sugar is markedly influenced by a diet low in carbohydrate. A high intake of carbohydrate seemed without effect on the fasting blood sugar. It was planned to make more extensive studies, but the subject developed undulant fever, and the experimental work was necessarily postponed.
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