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Show Sacceddiui f-arentlioocl BY MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine soon have a spare tire around his waist on such a hearty diet. Of course, less active children would also grow stocky on so generous an allowance of food, though surplus weight is soon outgrown at this age so it Isn't necessary to be too strict about curbing the gargantuan appetites appe-tites of small boys. It is Important, however, to see that this mountainous supply of food Is well balanced as to nutritive values. The youngster who wants to make a whole meal out of sweet corn and potatoes needs to be restrained re-strained and his diet varied with fruits, green vegetables, eggs and meat. It is essential, too, that small boys have a quart of milk (675 calories) calo-ries) each day, though It doesn't all have to be taken as a beverage. Fortunately youngsters rarely have to be cajoled (radio giveaways to the contrary notwithstanding) to eat a big bowl of cereal at least once a day and bread and butter disappears like melting sugar when they come la from play with an appetite Food plays another gratifying role in the lives of boys and girls they find its preparation great fun and many an otherwise dull afternoon can be enlivened by letting them stir a ready-mix Into delectable tea cakes, or by turning over the making of hamburgers or hot dogs to the most willing consumers of these American appetite soothers. Homemade root beer cuts down the soft drink bill and the children can make it themselves. And a freezer of ice cream sets mouths watering to keep children busy during its long preparation. "TTE'S THIN BECAUSE he wears himself out carrying .around all the food he eats!" That's what adults used to say about growing boys, and mothers often worried over the fact that their sons ate more than their husbands. Now the matter has been settled by actual measurements of the energy outgo and calorie intake of men and boys, and the youngsters won on actually needing more and bigger second helpings than their fathers. This experiment has been going go-ing on for five years and is a cooperative co-operative project of the nutrition nutri-tion laboratory at Teachers College, Col-lege, Columbia University, and the bureau of home nutrition and home economics of the TJ. S. department of agriculture. The findings show that boys use more energy per unit of weight for doing the same jobs their fathers do with much less output. This is especially noticeable In dressing and undressing,' partly because be-cause adults have learned to waste less energy in accomplishing these daily tasks. Men ride a bicycle with more economy of effort than boys, and it will be no surprise that they burn up less body fuel listening to the radio than an excitable youngster young-ster does. The researchers found that girls, too, need more food in relation to size than do adults, though not as much more as their brothers require. re-quire. It was found, for example, that a 10-year-old who is on the go most of the day can consume 3000 calories daily, and stay at normal weight, while his less active father would , |