The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-04
VITAMN A IN DIET f.
IMP0RYANT,SAYS
ECONOMICS REPORT
Government Experts Point Out
That Citizens Should Choose
Adequate Food
FAMILY FOOD GUIDE


Every day-Cereal In porridge
or buildings, potatoes, tomatoes
Tor oranges) for children, a green
or yellow vegetable. a fruit or adj
ditional vegetable, milk for all.
Two to four times q week-To.
matoeS for all, dried beans and
peas or peanuts, eggs Especially
for children), lean meat, fish or
poultry, or cheese.
Be sure you have plenty Of vitamiu
IA" in your diet during the winter
months If you hope to keep up q re-
sistance to infections Of the sinuses
and air passages, ears and eyes, says
the bureau OF home economics, u. s
department Of agriculture.
Persons living on a minimum food
budget should especially heed this
warning and buy foods that will give
them the maximum nutrition fol-
their money. In the winter the body
is subject to sudden chills and
changes of temperature: consequent
ly lack of adequate food is more
quickly reflected In general wellbeing
during cold weather than in the sum-
rner.
Fresh whole milk, liver and kidney,
green leafy vegetables, raw carrots,
butter, and cod-liver oil contain gen.
erous amounts of this vitamin "a"
which Is sometimes called the "anti-
infective' vitamin.
During the war Denmark exported
i{c ~aiYlp fok ond a nr0ot ~oonvy H4n
ish children developed eye infection.
It "a cleared up by feeding vita
min "A"
Vitamin "A" is necessary the year
round the bureau says, and it is es-
pecially important for children, since
it is also indispensable for normal
growth.
Children suffer more lasting effects
than do adults during such periods as
drought and the present employment
emergency. If they eat foods which
lack vitamins, they do not get the
necessary materials with which to
grow and build. Poor teeth, ricketts,,
stunted growth and lowered resist
ance are the usual results.
The bureau has prepared the
Family Food Guide" which accom-
panied this article. Those who fol-
low it will be safeguarded against the
diseases that come in the train Of
malnutrition.
A family of 10 can buy food for
one week, for $l2.23, il they adapt
this food guide to their three meals
served each day, according to the
bureau estimate. The figures are the
average gathered in IL cities from
coast to coast.
A family Of 10, including three
adults and seven children should buy
every week:
Flour and cereal az
lbs. bread equals l ID.
cereal) ............. 80 to 40 lbs.
Whole fresh milk 49,. 43 to Sc Qts.
Canned unsweete ed
milk (tall cans) ..... 43 to 56cans
Potatoes ............. 80 to 40 lbs.
Dried beans, peas, pea !.
nut butter ........... z 10 . IDS.
Canned tomatoes INC.
3 canS) .............. 3 cans
Other vegetables Cn-
GLIDING some Of green
or yellow color, and
Inexpensive fruits -. 80 to 40 lbs.
Fats, such as lard, salt ;
pork, bacon, butter, etc. 6 lbs.
Sugar and molasseS -. 2 lbs.
Lean meat, fish, cheese,
eggs Il dozen. eggs ap-
proximates l lb.) -. 10 to IA lbs.
Eggs tfor children} -. 8 eggs
Coffee IL lbs.
Tea 4 lb.
Menu for One Day
Breakfast: Cooked cereal, milk,
hot biscuit, molasseS.
Dinner: Hopping John with to-
mato sauce, scalloped potatoes, raw
cabbage and carrot salad Cooked
carrots for youngest children) with
crisp, green lettuce. coffee, milk for
children, bread, butter.
Supper: Cheese with spaghetti on