family of course got up in time to enjoy a good breakfast but not him he had to rush off to school and then by ten thirty he kept checking his watch from lunch time getting more ravenous by the second at last when lunch came he spent a good deal of money trying to satisfy his hunger again had eaten enough and included all the right food at dinner that night he filled up on one or two things you like best and left the rest of a good meal on fanny's sure he was too tired to discuss but now he was beginning to understand why bob is your body where and there are plenty of street that would put it on the scrap heap but of course your body doesn't just quit when you don't treat it right it tries to get going by making changes gradual changes that affect your energy your personality and the way you feel now you learned in biology that your body needs certain nutrients from food every day remember why you need the mineral calcium for bones for nerves and for my selection even for your heart beat because your heart is also muscle tissue to get firmness to your muscles you need protein you need the mineral iron in red blood cells to carry oxygen from your lungs to your body cells and you have to have vitamins vitamin a for vision die and then for steady nerves vitamin c for healthy blood vessels another tissue little flavor and other nutrients to help your body grow and maintain itself then use food properly now you know and slog but you've been forgetting that you need a sufficient variety of food to give you a basic m well feral is a sly old boxes that i thought he'd done but suggest bob help alice with an idea she had for her nutrition project in biology not that alice needed help really she'd already noticed what a difference properest and good eating made in her path and personality that was the beginning bob was good at charts and they worked well together they based it on the foods he needed each day and the reasons behind the chart would fit alice to providing she ate a little less than bob of each of the different kinds of food a list of the nutrients as mr farrel the calcium protein iron different vitamins then they drew a goal line that represented the recommended amounts of different nutrients their food should give them each day for instance meat fish are two servings and an egg would give them this fine base of nutrients and tomatoes look at the buildup in vitamins particularly and see next grain or enriched bread and cereal at least one generous serving at each meal adding some of many nutrients as well as energy but even with arlys foods ballet could see that they were coming closer to the goal there were still big gaps one more food group was needed dairy food for a boy bob age the equivalent of one to one and one half quarts of milk a day plus butter bob chose four glasses of milk a serving of cheese an ice cream and three pats of butter actually these dairy foods brought him over the goal line in nutrients for milk and milk products supply most of the calcium and plus protein and other essential nutrients no wonder milk and other dairy foods belong in every meal milk to drink at mealtime and in refrigerator ra cook food and butter adding its flavor and food value to many foods she does suit any taste and ice cream so good and so easy to serve in many  ate these kinds and amounts of food he still needed more food more energy this man he could go back for seconds or add other favorite foods to fill that didn't have to be told either because he could see a lot of things now really the ones who took care of themselves they were the ones having fun getting enjoyment out of good eating and the friendly companionship shared over food