The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
BREAKFAST IS SERVED

Here is a breakfast menu sub mitted in contest to supply a specimen diet list that will provide all the vitamins and minerals re- quired by an adult to maintain good nutrition. This was submitted by the girls physical education classes of a public high school:
 One-half lemon in glass of hot water before meal
 OF. glass of orange juice
 One large serving wheat germ cereal
 cup milk on cereal
 l slice whole wheat toast
 # pat butter
 1k slice bacon, dripped
 1 soft boiled egg
 glass whole milk @ oZ.)
 There you are. Nine items, no less. The high school girls, under guidance of their physical educa- ton teacher, infer, give what they estimate as these amounts of vita mins in the breakfast: Wit. A 3,657 units, Wit. B-1 2,818 units, Wit. c 5000 units, Wit. D 9 units, etc.
 The directions say one should take the lemon juice in a glass of hot water before breakfast. That is out. We are serving only break fast. From the pint, more or less of milk, the soft boiled egg and the half pat of butter the girls esti- mate one gets 22 units of vitamin D.. That may be true in exceptional in- stances, though I'd say the break fast would give ten or fifteen units of vitamin D.
 But the lunch menus the girls offer includes two OF. glasses of whole milk, # pat of butter, no other items containing even traces of vitanin D, yet they estimate the lunch provides 485 units of vitamin D! I'd say it provides ten units. But suspect the girls and their teacher were confused by the label on the milk bottle-perhaps they happened to choose milk doctored or fortified with vitanin D-usually about 400 units added to the quart. But that's out, too, for the re- quirements were clearly specified -undoctored foods.
 I hate to seem too critical = in- deed, I expect these high school girls are going to get the prize or at least some special award for their menu, but first I have to find their physical education teacher who seems to be of on vacation. It may not be amiss to point out a common error in the breakfast menu-incliuding two varieties of carbohydrate food. To eat whole wheat toast and also a cereal at the same meal is as sensible as 1t would be to eat French fried pota- toes with baked potatoes on the side.
 In the Rejuvenation Diet or the outline of basic health diet in the booklet "The T Keys to Vite" (copy for twenty-five cents and stamped self addressed envelope, but no clipping, please) there is for breakfast a glass of orange juice (S oz.) and glass of milk (8 oz) a pint of fiuid-and some readers boggle at that quantity. The high school girls apparently do not mind taking a pint of fluid plus cup ful of milk on cereal. That is all right, and even more milk if you like. The Rejuvenation Diet as out lined in the booklet purports to be a high vitamin, high mineral, cor rective, protective diet, basic health diet on which to build or pattern your own diet. AS it stands it is a good reduction diet too. But it does not, and in my opinion no specific diet one can conviently follow in these days of refinement, preservation and manipulation of food will provide all of the vitamins and minerals required to maintain good nutrition and good health. I believe it is necessary and advis- able to supplement our daily diet with a fair ration of vitamin D and B1 (thiamine) and c. (ribo- Aavin), especially in childhood, -lI