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Individual Variations in Susceptibility to Dietary Deficiency¹

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Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco

When a series of rats of the same breed and of approximately the same age are placed on a defective diet there are great individual variations in weight loss. Repetitions of the experiments after weight loss has been restored by a normal diet, show that on the whole the rats which lost most weight in the first instance do so again and vice versa. Resistance to weight loss on a defective diet seems therefore to be in some cases a characteristic of the individual and not a matter of chance. These results are shown to be statistically valid. Further studies on the explanation of this phenomenon are in progress.

Manuscript received 18 January 1937.

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