The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-28
DIETICIANS DISCUSS
FOOD; JOB A BIG ONE
ECHOES FROM THE CONGRESS
HELD IN NEW YORK. AT
TENDED BY HUNDREDS.

NEW YORK.-For housekeepers
whose spirits sink under the routine
upon which successful household man
agement is built the recent convention
Of the American Dietetic Association
at the Hotel McAlpin, in this city,
would have been a good tonic. Four
hundred men and women, managers
of tea-rooms, cafeterias, hospital kitch-
ems and dietetic centers in clinics, met
to discuss food. Highly specialized
people, they came frsm the four points
to devote three days to balanced ra-
tons and to the psychology of feeding
sick people and the psychology OF
teaching we'll people.
Two subjects received more than
ordinary emphasis-the feeding OF
children and the feeding of the sick.
The child with mo pep" with shad-
ows under the eyes, stringy forearms
and shoulder blades outstanding like
sharp-edged fms; the child that stands.
habitually with relaxed knees and pro
truding abdomen is the child that is
undernourished. 1t may not be under
fed in quantity, but it is not nourish-
ed by the food.
Poor Little Rich Girls.
1t would seem that much of the
sympathy in these matters turned upon
the poor children can safely be switch !
ed to the children of the rich Accord |
ing to Mrs. Ira Couch Wood, OF the |
Mccormick foundation, in Chicago, |
the children of the rich ARE the most |
pitiable and mostt abjeCt." She told !
how for the sake OF comparison two |
groups of Chicago children were taken
one from the stock yards district |
and the other from the homes OF pros
porous people living IN the University |
of Chicago section. The poor children,
mostly OF foreign parentage, were only |
II per cent below normal, while those |
who had presumably all the advant-
ages were 81 per cent below standard.
Now classes in nutrition are being
started in connc ction with the schools,
so that the rich may also benefit from
the new missionary work in food val
ues.
Scales tell the story OF a child's
health" says Mrs. Wood. In the nu-
triton classes the underweight chill
dren are ranged according to their
gain in weight, like participants in an
old-fashioned spelling match. The
child that has gained the most stands
at the head, and the one who has gain
ed the least at the foot. There are
trophies, too, for the greatest gain. All
this has to do with the psychology OF
competition, but il may mean heal
thy youth and middle age"
Mush VS. Shoulder Braces.
The psychology OF competition is
carried still further. 1t has been found
that parents react to it. Jimmie re-
fuses to take his milk and his mother,
who is accustomed to indulglng even
his harmful capriceS, attends the class,
and standing with her son in line finds
herself at the foot while Bessie or Fer
dinand stands at the head, looking
bright, with their cheeks growing pink
and their shoulders straight. She and
the stopped shoulders and crooked
backs OF children are corrected in most
instances by food. When the child is
nourished fatigue disappears and quite
normally it begins to stand correctly.
So mush in the morning and not shout
der braces is often the cure.
Since the war there has been much
Ciamor about the waste OF materials
and money, but there is only sporadic
agitation over the waste OF chidren's
lives. Yet, according to Mrs. Wood,
it was twelve times more dangerous
to be a baby in Illinois during the
war than soldier in the front lines!
For the whole country she said,
"the death rate still remains shocking
half a million children under the
age OF 6 die during each year. And
they die largely because Of ignorance
and neglect"
Why Beautiful Foods?
Make plain food attractive by a
touch of color or a garnish" is the adj
vice of Miss Emma Baker, Of Teach
ers' college. She spoke OF two phases OF !
cafeteria service, the furnishing of sui
fcient nutrition per portion and its
"salableness."
DO not make menus by the week. |
Make them out for at, least nine days
ahead. Then the same menus will new
er fall on the same days in successive
weeks" An illuminating story OF a
corn starch pudding was told. 1t was
served with plain cream, with whipped
cream and with whipped cream and a
half mot a whole Maraschino cherry.
These three kinds of pudding were
ranged on a cafeteria counter i'll three
rows, the last row, the one furthest
from the patrons, being the pudding