The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-11-23
FILL Up THAT HUNGRY boy
WITH ENERCY-ClV FOOD
1t is Normal and Necessary for Grow
ing Boys to Eat Heartily--They
Often Require More Food Than a
Moderately Active Man to Attain
Their Proper Development.

The average boy between IL and 40
is apt suddenly to develop extraor-
dinary predatory habits toward the
pantry and ice box, even when his mo-
ther fondly believes she has provided
him with good filling meals, as proper
ly balanced diet, and a few iuxurief,
besides. 1t becomes difficult to keep
a box of crackers on raisins or any
4 easily pocketed fruits on hand-cake,
-doughputs, or even plain bread. Rare
is the home where the boy in his early
teens does not come in from school
clamoring for food, no matter how
many sandwiches and cookies were
tucked in his lunch box. Almost any
leftover in the ice box, from cold
beans to pie, is liable to disappear at
this hour. ..
Give Him an AfterSchool Lunch
The wise mother is not unduly alar-
med by these manifestations Instead
of worrying for fear her boy is be-
coming hopeless thief, she sets out
for him an extra after-school lunch
of milk and perhaps buns, cookies,
doughnuts, pie, or fruit. She will then
eXpend her mental energy in q care
full examination Of the calorie-con-
tents Of the food he actually eats to
see that it is adequate to his needs
at this important growing period.
1t has been found by studying the
foods served to boys in school where
considerable stress is laid on physical
development that a boy between 12
and 20 may eat even more than his
father, if the latter does only moder-
ately active work. The boy uses a
tremendous amount Of energy, and at
the same time is often growing faster
each year than at any other period
since babyhood. Three and half in
ches annual increase in height is not
unusual at this age.
Cereal Foods Satisfy
The United States Department of
Agriculture has worked out simple
tables showing how many pounds of
ordinary foods give the necessary
calories per week, and no wmany hun
pound or other measure by which
foods arc bought. Galleries are the
units by which energy, or the power
to do work, is measured.
The average person over IL years of
age requires 27 hundred -calorie por-
tions of food day, or about 100
week. This is true Of man or a boy
using little muscular energy in work
or play, or a woman or girl who uses
a good deal. A very active man or
boy may need as much as 40 hundred
caloric portions day, on $50 a week.
These must be distributed among the
five food groups, SO that fruits and
vegetables furnish about one-ffth,
proten-rich food another fifth; fats
and fat foods fifth; cereal foods,
such as bread, and foods made of flour
rice, corn meal and other cereals,
three-tenth; sweets, one-tenth.
The cereal group furnishes the
largest amount and also one of the
cheapest and easiest sources from
which to provide food that satisfies
the natural boys Unsuitable hunger;
but the mother should take unusual
pains to include a sufficiently high
proportion from the fruit and vegc-
table group and also plenty of milk.
In the family of moderate means
the problem often is to provide a
quantity of good inexpensive satisfy
ing material from each group, rather
than articles calling for high-priced
ingredients or delicate cookery. Most
boys prefer doughnuts to pound cake;
dumplings and lots of gravy please
better than small portions of expen-
sivc meat cuts. Milk in large uuanti-
ties helps body building and growth
by the protein, lime, and vitamines
that it supplies; while succulcnt vegc-
tables, salads, tomatoes, oranges, and
other fruits furnish the indispensable
vitamines as we'll as bulk. Active boys
crave and require plenty of butter,
bacon or other sources of fat. They
are also notoriously greedy with sweet
things, like jam, honey, candy, and
sweet desserts, and there is no harm
in these sugar foods if they are scrv-
ed at the right time and providing all
of them together do not furnish more
than 10 per cent of the energy of the
total food used, as indicated above.