Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
MIX the Best Food for Children.
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE THAT CAN
TAKE ITS PLACE.

TAKE ITS PLACE.
A glass oftcreamy, clean milk 10 ths
best tonic for boys and girls. 1t helps
to make them active and sturdy, with
energy for play and chance to grow
into strong men and women.
Have the children drink more milk
It is one of the best ways to keep them
we'll. 1t will not solve all the problemt
of bringing up healthy family but 1t is
one OF the things to build on.
Nothing has greater Influence upor
the child's health than food. Since pure
milk IL the most nearly perfect food
every child should have milk In his diet
Milk contains all the things that The
body needs 10 better proportions thar
any other food.
Most children who have not enough
milk are sickly and undersized. In
countries where milk is scarce the To-
FAINT death rate is always high. 1t ID
milk, not medicine, that children Otter
need.
At least three-fourths of quart ol
milk q day should be given to every
child. Children, large and small, need
milk to build their bodies and to keep
them we'll and strong. Milk, the child't
beet food, is also OF value In the diet Of
the grown person. It 10 safeguard
which insures the things necessary to
keep the body vigorous and In good
health.
Scientists have proved through years
Of work that milk is the best food fol
children. 1t makes many other foods
better and 1t is nearly . complete food
in itself.
Children cannot grow into healthy
men and women unless the food they cal
contains Ave necessary things: the body
building material (protein), fuel (carbo.
hydrate and fat), body regulators and
bone builders mineral matter), and the
essential growth Substances (vitamines).
Children must eat foods containing
the body building protein. When this
substance is eaten, It is changed into
muscles, blood, and other tissues of the
body. 1t builds new muscles and re-
pairs the old. The rapid growth of
children makes it necessary that they
have more protein for their size than
adults. Mothers cannot select, with
safety, the body building material (pro-
teip) from any food for their children's
meals, for numerous experiments have
shown that the protein in different foods
varies in it's ability to build the body.
A pound of protein from corn meal or
wheat, for instance, lacks great deal OF
being equal to pound of protein from
milk.
While cereals have large amount OF
this body building material, only 80 per
cent of their weight can be used by the
body. When pound OF cereal protein
is eaten, 80 per cent is used in building
the body and 10 per cent is wasted.
The story of milk protein is moro happy,
for 65 per cent of 1t is used and only 35
DER cent wasted. A combination OF
milk and cereal is even better. When
they are eaten together, from 90 to 65
per cent of the entire weight OF the pro-
tein of both is used to build the muscles
and other parts of the body. Milk great
IL improves the food value of cereals.
Breakfast foods such as corn meal
mush and oil cereals served with milk
give the boy and girl good protein, OF
which large part can be used BY their
bodies.
Milk gives children an excellent body
building protein, more easily digested
by the young child than the protein OF
other foods. 1t helps the child to grow
into well.developed manhood. In no
better way can the cbild's health be
made secure than by using milk In bis
meals every day.
Children need fuel foods to make
them active and healthy. In play and
ip work the child exercises all parts Of
his body. This activity is made possibls
by the fuel (oarboh ydrate and fat) which
is In the food the child eats. Fuel foods
also help keep the body warm. Chill
dren require moro fuel according to their
size than grown persons because they
arc more active.
Cereals are the cheapest of oil foods,
but when they are fed alone children
are pale and sickly and they do not
grow. II milk is added to the cereal,
children are healthy and grow. There.
fore q combination of milk and cereal
is the best fuel food for children. The
whole of the cereal grain is better than
the one In which the outer coat 10 re-
moved, for 1t contains more iron which
makes rosy cheeks and good health.
Milk and cereal, served together, make
excellent food for all children, big ano
little. They give the child's body fue
and help make him strong, healthy, and
energetic. :.
Foods give children mineral matter tc
hasu
Their blood also needs mineral matter
All the body's work is regulated by tht
minerals contained in food. For thi'
reason minerals have been called th'
body regulators.
Small children must have great des
of mineral matter In their foods, be
cause their bones grow quickly. Older
children and grown persons must ca
food containing minerals to keep tbei
bones and teeth In repair.
Milk has the best mineral content o
any single food. Many foods contain
some of the necessary minerals but ther'
ia no other food that contains ell o
them In such good proportion. Mill
has an abundant supply of lime, th'
most largely used mineral in the build
| ing of bones and teeth.
Milk is necessary In the diet OF th'
child because Of its excellent minera
content. Because most cereals do no
have nearly 80 good mineral content Q
milk. the addition Of skimmilk to then
improves their food value. OF course
skimmilk 10 not 90 good food - who'll
milk as it has less fat. but IL does, CON
tain the same minerals. Since the QUITE
part of the cereal grain contains iron
milk, which 10 low In iron, is improve,
by using It with the whole cereal. !
kchildren are to be strong and healthy
they must have milk In their meals u
| give their bodies the essential minerals
Children grow rapidly II they are vel
II and their foods contain the growth sub
II stances, vitamines, in addition to pro
teip, minerals, and the fuel foods. vita
mines are essential to growth and health
Without them children are pale, sickly
and stunted.
II One. yItamine dissolvcs In water.
n found in the whole grain, tho leave
II Of, plapts and In milk.
n When the child's foods do not contai
enough Of this vitsmine, the cbild5 st0r
growing and his health is poor. Th
food eaten BY the people of China an
Japan docs not contain enough. OF tn
IN grow th material and asa result the
suffer from tho besi beri disease. Mo-
of their meals are Of fish and polishe
l~Al - Shar. laNkto0 In tha Vatl