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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, IHiRTPOBD.
N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938 1 . ' . 1 .
STATE AGENT
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HEALTH FOODS FOR CHILDREN !
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By MARY E. THOMAS
Extension Nutritionist
What is more important in making
for Better Homes than the training
of the children in good food habits 7
To see that children have the
foods they need and that they eat
them with relish is a real undertak
ing. This means that mothers not
only must know what foods the chil
dren need, but they must train the
children to enjoy them. All this
means study and patience, but most
of all it means that mothers must be
constantly on the job during the
earliest months and throughout the
years that follow.
Is the effort worth while? Anyone
who has ever had the care of a sick
child knows that she would rather
apend months of effort in careful
feeding to prevent illness than a few
hours hovering over a sick child's
bed. Additional reward lies in the
fact that the children grow up heal
thy and happy rather than delicate
and fretful.
Just what should children eat?
To begin with, a generous amount of
milk of good quality is the first and
most important 'food. Within the
vrst year there should be added
gradually orange juice or tomato
juice; well cooked cereals, some of
them made from whole grains; egg
yolk; and strained and mashed veg
etables, using spinach and carrots
first. Soon after seived Iruits, both
cooked and raw, and finally baked
white potatoes may be added. Thus
are provided building, regulating,
protective, and energy giving foods,
all needed for growing healthy chil
dren. -IliMjJMS-ftff-i'li!"
To insure fine bones and teeth a
Tew drops of cod liver oil should be
given each day, beginning when the
child is a few weeks old and con
tinuing in small amounts daily as the
months pass. Important too are
daily sun baths when weather per
mits. Hard crackers or oven toast
shaaH be given to chew as soon as
U first tiny teeth are cut. This
chewing helps to strengthen the jaw
muscles, develop well shaped jaws
and bring plenty of blood to the
roots of the tiny teeth.
The foods listed for the first year,
plus meat in proper amounts and a
few sweets, are exactly the kind the
child will need during his second
year, and his third and so on until
be is no longer a baby but a school
hoy, and a young man ready for
callage and finally a parent in his
awa right. It is only a question of
increasing the amount of food.
Often I heaV mothers say: "If
someone would only tell me how to
get children to eat the foods they
should have!" Perhaps these sug
gestions will help.
It is important to keep the diet
bland in flavor and let fruits and
vegetables represent a real treat
because they are highly flavored
compared with milk, cereal and eggs
which should constitute the main
part of the child's diet.
It is important that meals be
served at regular hours. Dinner at
twelve one day and at one-thirty the
next is certainly not conducive to
good food habits.
There should be no lunching be
tween meals, especially if the appw
tite at meal time is affected. If there
is too long a period between meals, a
cup of milk and a plain cracker,
half-way between, may be given but
no cake, candy, popcorn or other
similar foods.
Another important thing is the
question of sweets. There seems to
be -general agreement that a little
kard candy immediately after meals
is permissible. The large amoant of
sugar in ice cream counts it a treat
for dessert and bars it for lunch be
tween meals.
The secret of a good appetite in
physically fit children is bland foods,
regular meals, no lunching between
meals and sweets only in small quan
tity for dessert.
To assure good food habits:
1. Begin the training) early.
2. "When introducing new foods
observe great care that jthe food is
erred at its best no naif-cooked
carrots, watery poached egg, cereals
with lumps, or gritty, over-cooked
(nana
2. Give only one new food at a
time and this, in small quantity, so
m not to overtax the digestion.
4 Introduce a new food ai a
, C Refusal to give a second help
. v 'I Mr fter he has had his first taste
ru it m food also makes ; the child look
-k nan the-food a 'tferyi desirable.) ,
a If a new food is looked anon
; with suspicion, put it' oat of iht
Merer have an open clash and make
a child oat food. This seWes only to
' fx the refusal in the child's mind.
t, ,- Che the new food a - second trial
f,when the child is in a better mood
i- r mora hungry and it will be ac
'" eepted.
- 7. Never give a taste of anything
i that Is not a regular part of the
i4ML A child will ask for only fa-
' miliar foods. One way to avoid a
T child teasing ' for forbidden foods Is
' at keep hint in ignorance of them. ,
5 "f' , To f prevent teasing, 1 be final
? 'in tefussIsi';i,ijty'J5: 'iX?$xfiS-i
1 V'v 9. The subject of food likes and
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xsuaea snouiu never oe inenuuiwu v
the family table- or .tie child
cats alone. Children aw very imi
tative and will not rt a .:i if
adults do not. The food should be
placed before the child, and he
should never be urged to eat unless
he seems' to be forgetting something,
then call his attention to it. Do not
let him know that it makes any dif
ference whether he eats or not.
Even children under two years of
age are sometimes aware of parents'
anxiety. They are much more apt
to finish the meal when some one is
not standing over them urging and
nagging.
In case a child has developed defi
nite food prejudices, use special
dishes, such as an attractive mug
for milk or a favorite plate, or bowi
for other food.
Have him eat the most distasteful
food first when he is most hungr
and then give him food most en
joyed. Sometimes it is necessary to
resort to letting the child go without
food until he becomes hungry enough
to eat what is put before him.
Too often mothers relax their
vigilance in regard to food when
their children reach the end of the
second year. More attention should
be given to food of pre-school chil
dren as it is during this period that
many new foods are added. If little
children eat by themselves, it is
easier to keep the food simple. If
they eat with the family, it makes
less work for the busy mother and
promotes family spirit.
Does this mean that children eat
the same food as that prepared for
the grown-ups, or adults eat only
kindergarten food? Probably the
best plan is to see that the dishes
prepared for the elders are such
that the children's meal may be se
lected from the family's without
cooking special dishes. This plan
saves work, the children have the
kind of food they need and the adults
do not feel abused.
There is a distinct advantage in
giving children as much variety as
possible among the foods allowed
them. Sometimes as children grow
older, there is the special problem to
get them to try new dishes just be
cause they are different from the
ones eaten from day to day. For
example, many variations can be!
made with a custard for the basis.
Custard poured over canned peaches,
sliced bananas or cooked prunes will
have such a different flavor that it
will seem like a new dessert.
Meringue may be used on it one
time, whipped cream another. It
may be served between layers of
sponge cake, or in pastry shells for
the older members of the family.
Salads are a good medium of get
ting green vegetables into the diet.
A taste for salads should be culti
vated in children. Fruit and vege-!
table salads may be served often!
with mildly seasoned dressing. More 1
seasoning can easily be added to
fiorti Cvwtwr
Miss Rutn Current, State Agent
of Home Demonstration Clubs,
who succeeds Dr. Jane S. Mc
Kimmon, brings to her position a
wealth of experience and ability
that well qualifies her to have
charge of home demonstration
work in the State.
Full many a race is lost -Ere
even the race is run,
And many a coward fails,
' Ere even his wcrk's begun.
Think big, and your deeds will grow,
Think small and you fall behind,
Think that you can, and you will;
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you
are;
You've got to think high to rise;
You've got to be sure of yourself
before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battle doesn't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later, the man who
wins
Is the fellow who thinks he can.
Author Unknown.
WHO KNOWS?
1. Do men or women spend more
for clothes?
2. How much has the R. F. C.
loaned to banks?
3. How many young people look
for their first jobs each year?
4. What is the national debt?
5. How many CCC camps are in
operation ?
6. What is the appropriation .for
the Army and Navy? .
7. How high is the Washington
Monument?
8. How does present business ac-
pie. Perhaps the best way to nuke! . W!len W,,U Opines achieve
a success of adapting the adult ! mn?"c? tV.
meals to children's needs and chil-i A .What th aver8fe mc.?me
dren's meals to adult tastes is to ; of business and professional men?
make the food interesting as well asj AjjSWEBg
nutritious. . ... .... .
x. women in cuies ana men on
the farms.
2. $3,198,000,000.
3. About 400,000.
4. Approximately $38,000100,000.'
5. 1,500.
6. About $500,000,000 for the
Woudn't it be wonderful never to t
have to say or to hear, "Eat it, it's!
good for you?" A better slogan is,
'Eat it, it is good."
ITS ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND I
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If you think you are beaten, you are; Army and $560,000,000 for the'Navy.
If you think you dare not, you
don't;
If you think you'd like to win, but
you can't,
It's almost a "cinch" you won't;
11 you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.
This does not include funds for the
20 per cent increase in warships.
7. 555 feet 5 1-8 inches.
8. Present busino&s index, 78.1;
last August 111.2.
9. Under present legislation, in
1946.
10. A recent study indicates it is
less than $2,500.
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