Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
CHILD FEEDING EXPERT TELLS
RuLES EOR DIET

RULES FOR DIE
Parental control, right food habits
started in infancy, and the proper
kinds and amounts of food according
to the age of the child, are the out
standing points in proper nutrition Of
children. according to DR.. Dorothy
Reed MendenhaIl, national authority
on child feeding who addressed the
women attending the Short Course.
Following are the main points in
her speech:
eve must have in our diet energy
producing foods and tissue-building
foods. Plenty of water and roughage
to keep the intestines in good condi
ton and promote proper elimination
are necessary.
"The tissue-building foods which we
put into the child to build actual
blood, muscle and brains, are:
High grade protein the kind Of
food that is most like human tissue
This protein is found in milk, meat
fish and eggs. These four are high
grade protein. High-grade protein is
animal protein which is the tissue Of
which animals are built The next
question is, how much of these pro
teins should the child have? A child
must have cup of milk (miEimun)
three times a day. BY this / mean
cup of milk to drink in addition TO the
milk which may be contained in his
food.
Every child is better for meat or
fish or eggs once a day. They can get
along with that, but the average child
is better off if he has meat at dinner
and an egg or cottage cheese for sup
per. One helping of meat, such as beef
is the equivalent of one pint of milk
or two eggs or one cup of baked beans
Thus, a child should have three cups
of milk a day, meat or fish at noon,
and eggs or cottage cheese or baked
beans or cup of pea PURGE for his
supper. Milk, Of course, is given the
first year. Meat is begun the second
year, eggs the second year, and al
the end of the second year cottage
cheese or pea PURGE. After the second
year begin little meat once a day or
perhaps two or three times q week.
Other tissue building foods are min
erals The blood and bone are almost
entirely mineral. Calcium is the chief
ingredient of bone. One pint of milk a
day is the very minimum that will
produce calcium. Certain vegetables
are high in calcium, for example, cauli
flower and celery and cabbage.
Orange is high in calcium. Childrens
who are making bone SO fast must get
calcium, and if you don't give enough
milk the child doesn't get enough cal
cium.
Iron-almost all children at the end
of the first year are low in iron. The
child must have green vegetables,
meat and eggs, for all of these foods
contain iron. The child should not
have meat during the first year, but
should be given spinach and green
vegetables. He should have spinach
every day, also orange which contains
iron. We read a great deal in the ad-
vertisements about raisins containing
iron. There is no more iron in raisins
than in prunes, figs, eggs or potatoes.
Even the little baby should be given
iron in green vegetables. From one
year on you can put little meat in
the soup, giving at first only the fluid,
but gradually adding a little of the
meat itself to the child's food
Our water does not contain iodine.
All people living in this belt should
put iodine in children's food. Ehis can
very easily be done by buying Nj
salt, which is SO per cent sodium
chloride and 2 per cent sodium iodine,
and seasoning the food while cooking
About one girl in every ten has en-
Iarged thyroid at the age of four, and
later this develops into goiter if not
guarded against
The cleo and nut margerines do
not contain vitamines. Spread them
on the childs bread if you wish, but
do not expect the child to get vita
mines from them. See that the sufi-
Gent vitamines are provided in some
other way.
A child should not have water at
his meals. If a glass of water is set
before a child he will be inclined to