The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-01
Homemakers' Column
Edited by Miss Mildred Barton, Home
Demonstration Agent for Garrett
County, Oakland.
CHECK YOUR CHILD'S DIET ON
CHILD HEALTH DAY

parents lHe country over 10 CHECK up
on the kind of a foundation they are
building for the health of tomorrow's
citizens.
Good food is basis for good health.
1t builds tissue, strong bones and
sound teeth. 1t helps to repair the body,
keep it in good running order and gives
energy for work and play. Further
more, good food habits established in
childhood are an asset throughout life,
because they make selection of the
right diet second nature.
But what is good food for children?
Following are some tips on selecting
the proper foods economically:
MILK-Every child needs from p
to one quart a day. But this needn't
all be fresh whole milk. Some of it, es-
pecially that used in cooking, can be
the cheaper forms of milk, such as
dry skim milk and evaporated milk.
Remember, if you serve skim milk
that you need to serve plenty of foods
rich in vitamin A that the milk fat
contains. This may be butter, cod liver
oil, greens or any other vitamin A
rich vegetable or fruit. Cottage cheese
and American cheese are other suita-
BILE foods for children from which they
can get part of their daily quota of
milk"
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS Try
to get at least four servings a day.
One should be rich in vitamin A.
There is wide choice of the fruits
and vegetables that are rich in these
two vitamins, so it's easy to choose
the ones that are most economical in
your part of the country at this partic-
ular season of the year. Rich in vita
min c are oranges, grapefruit, toma-
toes, greens, cabbage, turnips and rut-
abagas. Rich in vitamin A and iron are
green leafy vegetables, such as beet
tops and turnip tops, kale, spinach,
collards and wild greens. Yellow veg
etables rich in vitamin A are carrots,
! rutabagas, yellow turnips, sweet po-
tatoes, yellow squash, apricots and
yellow peaches.
AS for other servings Of vegetables,
one or more might be potatoes or sweet
potatoes because of the good returns
in food value these vegetables give
for their cost. Prunes, dried fruits,
bananas, dried beans, dried peas, pea
nuts, also have lot to offer for their
cost. Apples and root vegetables are
cheap most Of the year. And pears,
grapes and other fruits in season add
variety.
EGGS-f possible, a child should
eat one every day. If not, try to see
that he gets at least four or five
week. Regardless of grade or color,
eggs are a bargain package of food
value.
LEAN MEAT, POULTRY OR
FISH-All lean meats have about the
same food value, whether the cut is
tough or tender and no matter how
cooked. Liver and kidneys are espec-
tally rich in iron and some vitamins,
and pork is rich in thiamin or vitamin
81. Low cost forms of poultry, lean
meat and fish are: Home-raised
meats and poultry, heart, kidneys and
liver of beef, lamb or pork, less
tender cuts of lean meat with little
bone or gristle, canned pink salmon,
canned mackerel, canned California
sardines, salt cod and other salt fish.
CEREALS AND BREAD-All chill
dren need at least one serving of cereal
day. If you can afford just four serv-
lngs day of fruits and vegetables,
try to get at least half of your servings
of bread and cereal as whole-grain
products or as enriched bread. And if
money is limited or appetites large
you'll want much more. Serve bread at
every meal for children in their teens.
COD LIVER OIL--Infants and
young children need some kind of fish
liver oil or direct sunshine the year
round. They need the vitamin D they
get from the sunshine and the cod liver
oil to help build strong bones and teeth
and ordinarily they don't get enough
even from a well-balanced diet. Two
teaspoons of cod liver oil (that pro-
vides IS U.S.P. units of vitamin d
per gram is the usual amount to give
to children between one and two years
old. How much children need after
that depends on how much sunshine
they get, and it is naturally less in the
summer season than when it is cold
or cloudy. But nutritionsts and doc
tors agree that children should con-
tinue to take some cod liver oil thru
out the years of rapid growth.
H. d. r. Schedule
Monday, May 5. Bittinger All Club.
Meeting at school house, 500 P. M.
Tuesday, May 6. Mars Hill Home
makers Club, at the home of Mrs.
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