The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
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 It would be interesting to know the dietaries during childhood of the great men and women in history. both of the past and the present. Many biographers have called attention to the fact that the mothers of their heroes have been women of great stren1,h of character ana 1t is safe to assert that most men and women who have attained promi- hence were properly fed during infancy and childhood. The habit of self-control which the child learns from eating the things that are good for children, and In being denied food that is harmful IS part of training that makes for sue cess in life, for men and women are simply grown up children"
 The proper diet for a child is of far greater importance than for an adult, because the entire life of a man or wom- an may be affected by the nourshmenr taken in infancy The properly nourished child usually develops into handsome, strong and healthy man or woman, one who is capable of the work and endu- rance necessary for success and long life. The improperly fed child, either the one whose parents let him ~eat everything . or the one whose parents are poor and cannot provide the proper food for their children, is much more susceptible than the well nourished child to all the dis eases of childhood, including scarlet fever and infantile paralysis which may result in deafness, deformity or death. It is also well to remember that the con- firmed dyspeptic is often the grown up child" who was improperly fed in in fancy.
 It has been definitely proved that tu- berculosis, in the majority of cases, at least, has it's beginning in infancy The poorly nourished child contracts the glan- dular form of tuberculosis, either through milk from tuberculous cows, or by inha- : lation of the germs from dust, or by eat ing with dirty hands which pick up all sorts of germs. These tuberculous glands remain in the bodies of children until they grow up, or even throughout life, and do no harm so long as the indi- vidual has the powers Of resistance, with which the normal body is endowed, to confine the disease to the glands; but from overwork, from disease like typhoid fever, or from bad sans.ary environment, person gets in a lowered stage of vitality, the tubercle germs get into the blood and produce the disease in the lungs, bones or other parts of the body. The death rate from tuberculosis will be reduced enormously when the women of all classes learn how to feed their chill dren.
 Everyone knows that the flower or the tree, the calf or the colt, that gets a bad start if it does not die before ma turity, is apt to grow into a dwarfed, de- formed, or misshapen. thing. The same is true of people. The child who suffers from colitis, or other 1nfantile disease that affects nutrition, may die, but if 1t recovers 1t gets a bad start that may take years to overcome Misshapen chests "bow legs," knock knees,'' flat foot'' and other deformities usually result from hamilton, the condition known as rick
 
 corrects these deformities recognizes the fact that the child must be built up'' before he can hope to attain results
 In feeding children it Is not so much the quantity, as the quality of food that may give trouble. "A child may starve to death with stomach full of food '' The regularity of feeding is also of great importance. Parents should realize that the first 10 years of lifN from the view point of nutrition and health, is of more importance than 20 or 30 years during adult life.
 The diet of a child should be made to conform to it's nutritioAul needs and to the stage of development of its digestive organs. A young child cannot lift as heavy a weight as an adult neither can it digest as much fooo as a man. The child needs proteins, carbohydrates, fats and mineral substances, m relatively lar ger proportions than an adult, for growth and for heat production. The infant, in proportion to its weight radiates 21a times as much heat as an adult.