DIXIE OWL, ST. GEORGE, UTAH 19 The Science Department TWO MISTAKES IN THE DIET OF STUDENTS semester as they do the second when the appe- tite has become more or less adapted to the Aside from age, the factor that influences more changed condition. The common mistake of those who board is than and other the amount of food required by to is eat more than the body requires. To remedy estimatthe body that of exercise. It has been ed that the food requirements of the adult, stated this and still supply all the needs of the body, I in calories per pound of body weight per working would suggest the use of all the fruits and green hour, varies somewhat as follows: Lying still vegetables, and all the milk and eggs that are .45 sitting , three-fifth- s desired. At least one of the first two of these ; standing, ; be included if the best health is to be mainmust on rate a of miles level road at the three walking tained and the most efficient work done. Avoid an hour, one; activities typical of such occupaall made dishes and highly seasoned food and an one and tions as carpenters and to one and excessive use of meat and sweet foods. The use ; farmers, masons and s lumto two; of candy between meals should be prohibited. It blacksmiths, one and bermen and excavators, as much as three. In deranges the digestive system, overtaxes the liver and excretory organs, and becomes an irritant to other words, for a man of average weight a mainall parts of the body, the brain included. A certenance requirement of about two thousand calories per day, or two hundred to three hundred tain group of students, feeling that they cannot per cent, or for short periods of time about six afford to board prepare their own food. Because of the necessity for economy, or the lack of hundred per cent. When entering school, many young people have time for preparing meals, there is apt to be a occupations involving active muscular exercise shortage, if not in the total amount of food, of and make a sudden change to the sedentery life some material essential to tissue building and reof the student. Instead of cutting down their pair. This leads to a decreased efficiency while in food to about the accustomed amount, school, and far more important, a gradual unto accommodate to the changed requirements of dermining of health, which destroys more or less the body, the appetite remains the same, and in- completely the usefulness of the individual after the education is acquired. The most abundant and creased leisure gives greater opportunity for satleast expensive are the tissue building materials. isfying it, and a tempting array of food, particun dessert, tempts to an indulg- Students in this second class should see that they larly the sugar-ladeence even beyond the demands of appetite. provide liberal amounts of milk, eggs and green The result is an over supply of nutriments convegetables, and to these should be added some above blood a meat, since not enough of milk and eggs to supply into with the thrown margin stantly what the body can care for, that becomes a poison the need of the body is apt to be taken. For all to the system, producing, if we do not consider students a diet consisting of a variety of natures the more serious and lasting results that follow products simply prepared will give for greater a continuation of this state, more or less of headefficiency while in school, and a longer, more vigorous and useful life, than indulgence in the creaand ache, feeling of fatigue, lassitude, drowsiness of either the confectioners or cooks art. tions mental stupor. This is one reason why students cannot accomplish as much in school the first May Wardthree-Tourth- s ; mail-carrier- s, one-four- th one-ha- lf three-fourth- one-ha- lf - BIOLOGY AS THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. Education, as defined by one of our greatest leaders, is the power to think, act, and appreciate. The possibilities for development along these lines have been made greater by the addition of High School Biology in the science course given by the Dixie Normal College. Those students who have taken this course in the past year find that Biology is of vital importance in their lives. Biology is the science of life, for in it one studies life from life. We are brought in close relationship with all forms of life found in nature. In the laboratories we study, under the compound microscope, the very lowest stages of plant and animal life. In the one called organism we see their structure, function and life habits, and from these lowest forms on up through the increasing complexity of life we see and become acquainted with the wonderful logical work of nature. We are led into the fields where we learn to know flowers and insects; into the forest where trees and birds are our subjects; into the soil where we study the worms and beetles, finding out their life history and habits, and learning which are useful and which are detrimental to man. Not only do we study of the life about us, but we study man himself. We know of his structure,