The Holly chieftain., 1922-04-13
HELEN BARR's ADVICE.
Vegetables in children's Diet

idiiI VI Iiilk II udy anu uiSIl VI
two of cooked cereal for breakfast
has the foundations of good diet
nearly laid. But to these must be
added vegetables if the diet is to
hc complete, They supply several,
thin%s in which milk and cereals are
moro or less deficient One OF these
is iron Though whole wheat foods
have more iron than most cereals
and milk has some, more is needed
Green vegetables. like spinach
string beans. greens of all sorts
and dried peas and beans are rich
in iron and even the potato is
worthy of consideration on this ac,
count
An exclusive milk and cereal diet
is bound to be deficient food
essential which prevents the disease
called seuryy (known as the c
vitamine. Many vegetables have
this vitamine, tomatoes. potatoes,
end cabbage especially.
There is danger oi destroying more
or less of this vitamine in long cook
ing. hence vegetables like cabbage
carrots and others used in soups
ard stcWs should not be cooked
FOR hours but added for just the
allotted time needed to make them
soft For this reason young and
tender vegetables which cook soft
quickly land are also richer in Wit,
anime are preferable to old ones,
to cay nothing of the fact that long
cooking of cabbage, turnips. caul.
flower and other strong favored
vegetables makes them hard to dig
est, and hence unsuitable for child
ren.
Vegetables add, too, another yit
anime not very literally supplied
in a milk and cereal diet but very
powerful in its influence on growth
the 'B" vitamne Babies on diet
of modified cows milk have been
mada to grow faster by the addition
of this ritamine in the form of
Sninach or vegetable soup to their
dict Nowadays breastfeed babies
get come vegetable juice by the
time they are six months old, Thus
the vegetable habit is started
Rsiih4es year~ ola get regularly
strained vegetable juice and pulp
from spinach, peas, carrots, aspar
agus, tomatoes and even cabbage.
In The second and third years thin
cream soups may be given once a
day to good advantage. BY the time
child is four or five years old, he
can begin to take the softer vcge-
tables mashed fine and by the
time he is six or seven, he should
be eating most kinds of vegetables
cooked, except corn which is too
difficult to mastieate. Raw vege
tables are best reserved until sev
erai wears later. The potatOe Is
very valuable vegetable for children
as well as adults and may well ap.
pear in the diet once Il day, though
never frisd nor served cold as pot
alto lad 1t is rot to be regarded
q substitute for green vegetables
which arc needed not only for their
mineral ealts and vitamines, but
tkeir laxntive properties, due part
T. to thcir fiber and partly to their
.uicea
He"Ithv children properly fed
should not need pills or other laxa
tive Grnss Their bowels should be
regulated by their regular habits
aud t''e kind of food in large part
thru The use of cereals with their
bran coats, and the more fibrous
veget lhles, asparagus. celery (stew-
ed 70 young children) string beans
lcttu c, spinach, and tomatoes.
Ques ions and Answers.
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ticleS will be answered thru these
columns if sealed and addressed to
Helen Barr Service Bureau, S25
L2rinar Street, nver-Editor.
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