The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-24
Health
Diet for Child
Of Three
By LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ. D.

We spoke yesterday of the sort
of restraint we should use as 20
what children should and should
not eat during the holiday season.
We must remember that chill.
dren over three have attained an
/ almost adult type of digestive ma.
chinery. The amount of things
which they can eat includes a
wide variety of choice. They may
have any fresh vegetable except
kernels of corn, raw whole rad
isheS, cucumbers and coalse, Il.
brous roots. Very few of these
are included in the ordinary
Christmas dinner.
In cooking vegetables for chill.
dren the minerals should be con.
served as much as possible. Steam
the vegetables, cook them with
very little water, and use the
water as a sauce. Use the water
in which you cook vegetables as
a broth for cereals, and also use
milk as a sauce for vegetables.
Some children digest raw fruits
well and others do better with
cooked fruits. They should all
have some orange juice, however,
Stewed fruits should have no
Sweetening added unless they are
tart. in which case honey or corn
syrup, brown sugar or sorghum
are better than the more refined
sugar.
Crisp Dessert Good
+ Crisp breads, raw apples celery
or raw carrot strips should be
served at every meal, and if DOS.
sible end with something of this
sort even after pudding or soft
dessert. This will stimulate the
gums and clean the teeth natur.
ally.
Soups, except vegetable soups,
are not particularly good for the
young child. They often take away
what appetite delicate child has,
and they contain very little nu.
tr1t1ve value of their own.
Going through the day with q
child like this, breakfast should
consist of orange juice or some
other fruit, cereal we'll cooked,
with milk, toast, and glass of
milk to drink. Bacon and eggs
may be given to thriving children
who have good appetites.
Lunch should include some sort
OF starch, as baked potato. There
should be a green vegetable, spin.
ach, beans, peas or carrots; either
meat, fish or eggs, cup of milk,
crisp bread and a pudding.
The evening meal will be larger
as the children get older, grad.
ually approXimating the adult
standpoint. We suggest that a
child should have creamed vege.
table on toast, a stew of a mix.
ture Of vegetables or a poachei
egg on toast, then a glass of milk,
or occasionally a glass of choco.
late or cocoa, crisp bread and
| fruit.
Three teaspoons of cod liver oil
divided between the three meals
should still be administered to a
child Of this age.
Question From Readers
J. r. c.: "Our family is having
quite an argument over the rela.
tive merits of preparing coffee
percOlatOr or dripolatOr. Please
let US know the most healthful
way to prepare coffee"
Answer: There is no particular
way of preparing coffee more
healthful than any other. The
only difference in methods is how
much caffeine is extracted from
the coffee. There is no difference
in the two methods you name.
Editors Note: Six pamphlets by
DR.. Clendening can now be OBJ.
tanned by sending 10 cents IN coin,
for each. and a addressed en-.
velope stamped with a three-cent
stamp, to DR.. Logan Clendening,
in care of this paper. The pamph.
lets are: indigestion and Consti.
patton" Reducing and Gaining"
Infant Feeding" instructions for
the Treatment of Diabetes" Femi-
nine Hygiene" and The Care of
the Hair and Skin"
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