The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-30
Your Health
NO DESSERT IN A HEALTH DIET
By WILLIAM BRADY. NJ. D.

 This hurts me as much as 1t does you, old timers. But even if it hurts little 1t is good for you to know that dessert seldom has a place in health diet.
 Even the diet of the growing child or teen age youth should include dessert only if or when the. young- ster is as active physically as Q normal youngster should be.
 The Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council, whose edicts are as authoritative as those of the "czar" of baseball or the movies, now (l046) recommends the following minimum daily require- ments:
 vitamin A 5000 .Internation-
 al Units for adults.
 For infants under one year of
 age 1900 units.
 For children three years old 200C
 units, and 500 more units daily
 for each three years in age there-
 after till the adult level of 5000
 units daily is reached.
 For the expectant mother. 5000
 units daily; and for the nursing
 mother 5000 units daily.
 These allowances are based on the premise that carotene (plant precursor of vitamin Al Is the source of two~thirds of the vitamin A in the diet and that carotene has only half or less than half the value of natural vitamin A (from fish liver oiD.
 Thiamine (vitamin Bl
 to 2 milligrams Infants under one year of age need
 about la milligram daily.
 Children in their teens not
 less than IF milligrams daily. Ribofiavin (vitamin B2)
 1.6 to 2.6 mgs. daily.
 Infants under one year need 0.6
 milligram daily.
 Niaoin (nicotinic acid) i2 to 20 milligrams daily. Infants under one year require {
 milligrams daily.
 Other B complex factors will prob- ably be sufficient if these three are supplied by the diet.
 Ascorbic acid (vitamin O
 75 to 100 milligrams.
 For infants less than year old
 30 milligrams.
 400 to 800 units.
 Adults have the least need for D
 altho the allowance mentioned
 is advisable if the individual Is
 seldom exposed to sunlight. Infants under one year require 40( to 300 units daily. Expectant and nursing mothers res quire 400 to 800 units daily. Elderly people probably need vita'
 min D too.
 The boards report states that "s good diet with a variety of natura foods" will probably supply thes' minimum requirements. Such a die should include these items: At least four eggs weekly.
 One serving daily of citrus frui
 or tomato or their juices, ol
 fresh uncooked salad greens. One quart of milk daily for chil'
 dren, plus an extra source O
 vitamin D: one pint of mill
 daily for adults or its equivalen
 in cheese.
 One serving daily of lean meat
 fish. poultry or seafood. tSea'
 food is any fish or shellfish iron
 the seal.
 One serving daily of a cooked
 leafy green or yellow vegetable
 or fruit.
 One portion daily of whole grair
 bread or cereal. You see, there is no dessert.
 After all, dessert is superfiuou when and if you have just had Igood square meal. It is downrigh gluttony to pack in six TO eigh hundred more calories on top O a thousand calorie meal just be- cause the sweet comes with thu meal at no extra charge and is eas! to eat even though your appetite | already satisfied.
 | Only those who do honest work muscular work, or play or exercise hard, may profitabiy take dessert For such individuals, children youths or adults, after a meal i the right time to take sweets O any kind.
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