Show f i Ei 9 J ill J 1 I U l iP J Jc m P rr J sel r 1 G rJ NJ C v Ej r P PC C U L CAN Growing BOYS EAT Too MUCH OTHERS catering to growing boys are r J MOTHERS often worried over the possibility of their J eating too much they much they have such large appetites appetites ap ap- p petites They may be reassured however hovy for or Dr Clement Dukes says ays that it is almost impose J E tible sibl bl to overfeed rapidly-growing rapidly young folks between between be- be J tween the ages of 13 and 19 provided the food is inot s Tint not too rich V Dr Dukes as reported in the Medical Journal Journal Journal Jour- Jour nal said that an adult should rise from the table tablea hungry but a Y youth should not arise until he be has 0 attained a sense of repletion A healthy appetite in adolescence not the caterers caterer's own appetite or c desires is the surest guide so fO lon long as the tho food is plain and md wholesome A larger quantity of all th the essential kinds of food is demanded than at any other time of li life e and a relative excess of proteins is indispensable indispensable sable if the highest state of growth and ana develop development ment meat is to be attained Milk is the standard growth food Children who have mill milk for breakfast breakfast break fast and supper grow nearly four times as fast 1 as those who have tea and coffee Meat should be eaten twice a day about three-quarters three of a pound for the younger ones a pound for the older Some adolescents have hav an antipathy to meat and to them cheese is invaluable Soup is ie beneficial and fat in some form is a necessity but it is required in less quantity than thant J t sugar At certain periods some adolescents havo have f an instinctive dislike to fat especially if they are re tired at other times they will ill eat it with avidity S. 4 The best forms in which it can be supplied are w milk butter margarine bacon and suet puddings TS for they will eat cat animal fat at in that form torm when v i they will not touch the fat of meat in any other CC L L L' L elac a cJ Green vegetables are needed to insure the best health but there is difficulty in n getting young foung people to eat many of them their heir place can be betaken betaken betaken taken by fruit which is much appreciated Finally Finaly Final Final- ly y Dr Dukes maintains that the chief cause of indigestion in healthy adolescence is not overeating over eating eating- or bolting food but is the tho drinking of ot too much strong tea and coffee r |