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  • Voit held on to the land for about a year before selling it to Duke Realty Corp., an Indianapolis property company, for $36 million.

    Giant Warehouses Dot Phoenix Desert Awaiting Imports That Never Came 2009

  • Voit Gilmore (Southern Pines) was appointed chairman and said such a change limited the report and the focus of the committee.

    Oral History Interview with Gladys Avery Tillett, March 20, 1974. Interview G-0061. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • During exercise there is obviously more abundant absorption of oxygen, and consequently greater elimination of carbonic acid, and as a consequence (as shown by researches of Voit), the reserve fat of the economy is attacked and diminished; in intense labor there is an average hourly consumption of about 8.2 percent. of fat.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • Voit asserts, from the results of his experiments, that extract of meat is practically useless as a food, and other authorities are quite of the same opinion, although they may value it as a stimulant and drug.

    The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

  • Voit, however, disapproves this, maintaining the greater part of the hydrocarbons is burned (furnishes fuel for the immediate evolution of force), and that fat cannot be stored up unless a due proportion of albuminoids is also administered.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • That adipose may be formed through the transformation of albuminous matters (meat) is an extremely important corollary, one established beyond cavil by Pettinkofer and Voit, in an indirect way, by first estimating the nitrogen and carbon ingested, and second the amount eliminated.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • From these and other considerations, we see that it is not only unnecessary, but inadvisable to diet ourselves according to any of the old standards, such as that of Voit, or even to any other standard, until they have been very thoroughly revised.

    The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

  • Atwater in this country and Voit in Germany have proposed such standards for men employed at different kinds of labor, as follows:

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • R.H. Chittenden, of Yale University, in his report refers to the experiments of Kumagawa, Sivén, and other physiologists; who have shown that men may live and thrive, for a time at least, on amounts of proteid per day equal to only one-half and one-quarter the amount called for in the Voit standard (see p. 32), even without unduly increasing the total calories of the food intake.

    The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

  • Many great names since the time of Hippocrates have figured in the list of those who shared with me the ambitious hope to give mankind some wonder-working remedy -- Metschnikoff, Voit, Koenig, Biedert, Rubner,

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

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