River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-06-15
BY A. L. MARLATT,
University of Wisconsin,.


Let the children drink more milk. 1t
will help them to keep well and TO
grow into strong men and women.
Nothing has greater influence up
on the children's health than the food
they eat. 1t takes the right food to
build their muscles, to help them grow
and TO make them active.
Milk is the best food. 1t makes the
things the body needs in better proper
tons than any other food. 1t makes
many other foods better and in Itself
is nearly complete food.
Children who are undernourished-
who are sick and undersized-will be
made stronger and more happy by the
use of more milk. In countries where
milk is scarce the infant death rate is
always high.
It's often whole milk that children
need instead of medicine. Every child
should have glass of milk with every
meal. 1t is safeguard which insures
the things necessary to keep the body
vigorous and in good health. MILK Is
also of value in the diet of the grown
person.
Five Things Necessary.
Children cannot grow into healthy
men and women unless the food they
eat contains five necessary things: The
tissue-building material (protein), fuel
Carbohydrates and fat), body regula-
tors and bone builders mineral mat
ter), the recently discovered substances
(vitaInines), and water.
Children must eat foods containing
the bodybuilding proteins. When pro-
teins are eaten, they are changed into
muscles, blood and other tissues of the
body. They build new muscles and
repair the old. The rapid growth OF
children makes it necessary that they
have more protein for their size than
adults.
With the changes in food due to
manufacture it is difficult for mother
always to choose the children's food
wisely. Numerous experiences 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 oatmeal, for instance, is not
equal in building power to pound OF
protein from milk.
When the days diet includes both
milk and grains in the right proper
ton. the protens of both are nearly
as well used as are the proteins of
milk alone.
Milk should be used in preparing all
breads, cakes, puddings, cereals, as
then the child uses these foods to the
same advantage as milk is used as
builder of body tissue.
Cereals are among the cheap foods,
but when eaten without milk they are
not growth foods.
A DAYS diet should contain milk.
cereals, fruits and vegetables, which
together provide complete bill of
fare for growing child.
Children Need Fuel Foods.
Children need fuel foods to make
them active and healthy. In play and
in work the child exercises all parts of
his body. This activity is made pos
sible by the fuel (sugar, starch and
fatl which Is in the food the child
eats. Fuel foods also help to keep the
body warm. Children require more
fuel according to their size than grown
persons, because. they are more active.
Children need abundance of mineral
matter to build the bones and develop
the teeth. The blood contains iron in
its red cells. Other minerals in the
blood regulate the heart and muscles.
Without proper minerals in food chill
dren would be pale and listless.
Milk is rich in lime and phosphorus.
Vegetables, fruit and cereals are also
rich in other minerals. The combina-
ton of milk with other foods is safe
ty-first'' law in feeding children.
Well children grow rapidly. Chit
dren keep well and grow when their
food contains plenty of the vitamine
found in butter fat, cream and whole
milk.
Experience has shown that growth
of animals is affected by the presence
or absence of this vitamine found most
abundantlf in the fat of milk. codliver
oil. liver and the young growing green
leaves of plants.
Some yellow-colored plants. as car
rots and yellow corn. contain this
growth vitamine. Vegetable ellis and
cereals In general contain none or very
little of this growth yitamine.
Children must be given plenty of