What children should eat : adapted from Home-Science for Grammar Schools Home-School-Community series / by Edith Greer ; prepared in the interest of child welfare for parents, teachers, kindergartners, settlement-workers ; Human Welfare Publications Southwest Harbor, Maine.

  • Greer, Edith
Date:
[1911], ©1911
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Credit: What children should eat : adapted from Home-Science for Grammar Schools Home-School-Community series / by Edith Greer ; prepared in the interest of child welfare for parents, teachers, kindergartners, settlement-workers ; Human Welfare Publications Southwest Harbor, Maine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    How to Choose Food for Children Milk is a food that builds tissue and gives heat, hence energy. Grains (cereals, flours); some veg- etables, as peas, beans; and such nuts as peanuts and chest- nuts , also provide for both building and en- ergy. Grains thoroughly ground and prop- erly cooked are digestible. They however give the intestine longer and harder work. Meats, Eggs, Fish, build tissue. Oysters have a composition similar to milk. Poultry is a buiiding food without much fat to disturb the digestion of a young child. Broths are only slightly nutritious. Vegetables containing starch (potato, rice, etc.) §rovide heat, therefore energy as do sugars, ugar or starch in excess in the diet deposits fat in the body. Drinking water while eating also does this. Fruits and green vegetables promote digestion even when they do not in themselves add much nutriment. Water is needed in abundance. Upon rising and before retiring a glass of water taken gradually does for a child inside what bath- * inj does out. The need is no less. The effect upon the health may be even greater. Mixed diet is advised because it meets all the needs of the body more easily and usually more fully than a more restricted diet. All food-elements needed are not in grains and vegetables in the proportions required by the body. A vegetable diet therefore over- works or under-nourishes the body. A mixed diet uses the digestive tract as a whole. This furthers digestion. A mixed diet also supplies the salts needed by the body. Milk, eggs and vegetable food furnish mineral salts. Common salt, in limited quantity is also needed. Little sugar, not much starch, limited meat, carefully chosen fruits, un- cooked fats, make the mixed diet for chil- dren. All are needed.