The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-18
PROTEIN IS ESSENTIAL
This Should Be in Mind When Plan
nina Meals.


Washington, Jan. l7.--In planning
meals and when buying supplies. 1t
is well 10 think OF the following foods
as in a class by themselves: Milk,
eggs. cheese of all kinds. meats Tex
ccpting salt pork and baconl, poul.
try, fish, and sea food These foods
are grouped together because they
provide what is now called adequate
or complete protein or protein com
binations. The term adequate" or
complete" is used in connection with
these proteins because of their I'M
portant relation to the protein OF the
body.
Protein is an essential part OF all
the tissues of the body. including the
muscles, the blood and the organs.
The material out of which body pro-
tein is made Is constantly changing
II Is sometimes said that the muscles
and other tissues Of the body wear
out" and are in constant need of re.
pair. This is not an apt description
of what really takes place, for 1t sug,
gests periods of disorder i'll the body
followed by periods of strength and
well-being. AS matter Of fact, the
process by which the body proteins
take in NV material TO replace the old
is perfectly normal and healthy one
which involves no wearing out" The
process does howver. create nevr-
ending demand for protein materials
I in food.
The proteins of the diet are found
chiefly in two classes of materials.
70 the first class belong milk, eggs.
( cheese, and flesh foods, all of which
are relatively expensive under most
/ conditions of living, and TO the second
/ belong the cereals twheat, oats, corn,
barley. rice and rye). and also beans,
peas and COW peas, all of which are
relatively cheap. There is an important
1 difference between the proteins OF
/ these two class of foods. The first
Z are c0mlpetc and the second inconr
plete This means that Of he"build-
/ ing stones" or, as chemists say, the
J amino acids, necessary for making
body protein, the first supply all, while
the second, with few possible ex.
ceptions, are lacking in one or two.
y 70 use bread or cereals in other
I forms 10 the exclusion OF milk. eggs.
I cheese, and similar foods, Is unsafe
from the standpoint of health, but
to use the latter foods in greater
! amount than Is needed usually adds to
! the cost of Of the diet II becomes an
important matter therefore, TO know
how much Of the perfect protein food
that child under six should have
one should use II is generally agreed
either ! quart OF milk day. or. bet
ter still. thrce.fourths of quart and
4 egg. a child over six should have
o minimum OF a pint day and
small amount OF the other foods In the
group.
family consisting of four adults
two men and two wofnen--all doing
moderately active muscular work.
should have a quart OF milk day and
at least IL pounds of other complete
protein foods or their equivalent In
milk For supplying protein quart
of milk may be considered the equiya.
lent OF ounces of other complete pro-
TEN foods. ~
No matter how much bread q person
eats or how much cornmeal or oat-
meal he falls short by just . little OBJ
; tanning everything needed for body
! unless he eats some OF the complete
protein foods EGGS. cheese. fish, and
, poultry resemble meat In containing
complete protein, and they are some
times, called meat substitutes Co
, reals. beans, and peas. on the other
hand, are called not meat substitutes
but meat savers.