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Excerpt from The Conservation of Food Energy
What Food Supplies. - First, food supplies building material for the growth of the various tissues and organs in the young animal and for their maintenance and repair in the mature one. In general these build ing materials are of two kinds: the mineral substances, which are required for the bones and in less degree for all the organs, and the proteins out of which the muscles and other working parts of the body are built up.
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