In cases where sugar only appears in the urine after food, and more especially after a diet rich in carbohydrates, the indication is to reduce the amount of sugar and starches in the food. An inquiry into the dietetic history of these patients frequently shows that they have been taking excess of sugar or starch usually in the form of one or more of the following - sugar, jams, confections, dried fruits, sweet wines, beer, or potatoes. These must be greatly restricted, or withheld for a time. In other instances it will be found that the patient has long been living on a diet which is too exclusively carbohydrate in character, examples of this condition being especially seen in stout women of forty or fifty years of age. Here the indication is to reduce the amount of bread, bread foods, and puddings rich in starch, and to prescribe a more largely protein diet.

1 1 ounce avoirdupois = 28.35 grammes.