Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-08-30
DIET OF CHILDREN oV Err ONE YEAR OF AGE.

The amount of food a person should
sat ~ determined by his weight and
age, the amount of work he does. the
season of the year, n in some small
part by the efficiency of his digestive
n nutritive apparatus.
Since a good part of the food eaten
goes to make heat. the value OF the
1000 eaten in zero weather should be
nearly TWICE as great as that OF the
days when The mercury flirts with 100.
"A man dom hard manual LABOR re-
qulres 4,O00calories, as compared with
.he s,OO0 required by a man lying quiet
~ IN bed. Other things being equal, the
amount or food a person requires varies
Nlth the weight. and for at least two
reasons the amount of food required
per pound Of weight, highest in the first
year of life. lessons year by year as
long as life lasts.
A baby increases his weight nearly
5oo per cent in the first year of his
NE. Inc rate of growth diminishes each
year thereafter. Growth requires food
IN relatively large quantities. That is
one reason why a person requires more
o a pound of weight in his first yea
IMAM at any subsequent time.
"A baby takes more exercise, works
harder than an older person. Laziness
is progressive. 1t increases from the
cradle to the grave. That is q second
reason why q baby requires more food
u pound tina does on older person.
"A calorie is the unit of measurement
or food value. Protein is the substance
necessary for growth n repair of It's
sues. When we are comparing foods we
cannot reckon i'm gross weights and
measures, co. Coils vary in colcentra-
ton and in food value. We must speak
IN calorles and grains of protein. This
is not 50 much of a bar to understand
ing as it seems. There are tables avail
able which show the calories and grains
OF protein of nearly every food and Ger
family OF each group of foods.
But aside from that people should be
willing to learn the values of foods and
to measurc them accurately, since ON
such accuracy HANGS the welfare of
babies and older children. the posi-
bility of The obese becoming thin and
of the thin getting fat.
DIR. Knox concludes his paper on The
Dict of Children After Infancy" read
before the American Medical %associa-
ton. by agreeing with Professor Mendel
when he asks why physicians take so
much care in measuring their doses of
drugs, which are administered only o.
caSlonally, and so little care in measur-
ing their food prescriptions which are
to be Flowed daily. Furthermore, DR..
Knox says that if the food of children
be accurately measured and allotted a
considerable proportion of drugs now ;
freely dispensed can be omitted.
Locke says that a child 2 years of
age requires AZ Galleries FOR each pound
OF weight. The requirement. for q child q
years of G is 81 c~alories a pound: for
n 8 years OF & 80 Galleries. The per ,
pound requirement of a child 2 years of
s. is nearly one and a half times that
OF a child 8 years of age.
A child 2 years of g weighing 26.5
pounds should eat food containing Lib
calories in a day. One S years of age, !
weighing SAB pounds, should eat 1896
only n and a half times the quantity
required by the mere bade Of 2. The
number Of grains Of protein required by
the 2 year old is 1859, nearly three
ounces; of the 8 year old, 1850, a little \
more than four and a half ounces.
The chief source Of animal protein is
milk, white OF eggs. and the lean of
meat. The chief course Of vegetable
protein is bread, cereals, peas. and
beans.
Knox says that not more than 81
should be contained in the daily ration
of q young child. OF this one-half
should be in he shape Of milk. eggs.
and lean meat. Children past 8 years of
age should not take over 35 grains of
protein a pound of weight. The older a
person grows the less should be the
proportion Of his protein obtained from
animal sources and the higher that
from vegetable sources.
AS a child grows older there is an in
creasing need of starches and sugars,
but this scarcely keeps pace with the
quirement of sugars and starches a
pound of weight, according to Locke, is
$50 to 1900 grains.
A baby two yea old should nave a
quart of fluid a day drinking water
and food). A child of z should have
three pints.
Knox bases the following diet tables
on the foregoing facts: