Show 1 DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE- 0 Excess of o Sugar Sugar- iq in in His is F Foods s I M Makes keS Baby a Pale a e and I Flabby I. I Want Infant Will Live on D One O Twentieth One eth Ounce of f Carbohydrate Per aI Pound oun of Weight Weil t r A a r This Thi a on one on of off a of articles b by Dr Or on nutrition of the thee e child Ild By DR MORRIS I FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the th American Medical Association and nd 0 of Hygeia Hy Hy- gala geia th the Health Magazine Magazin The second main type of food constituent l Is hi the carbohydrate or sugar It has bM been estimated ted as cited by Dr W. W M. M Marriott that the minimum amount of or carbohydrate drate on Which a n. Infant Young infant will live for any length of time Is about twentieth one-twentieth of an nn ounce for each ench pound of ot its weight Tho The best amount of ot carbohydrate Is 15 about from tenth one one to one fifth of or an ounce for each ich pound of t the childs child's weight or 01 approximately one hundredth of Its total weight A A. child that IH Is fed on Its Its Its- mothers mother's milk needs n ws about one fifth of or an nn ounce for tor c each ch pound of its weight each ach d a. a It If a n. groWn grown person on Is 1111 given too much carbohydrate ho he promptly develops tho the appearance nce of or lugar tugar In n Ills hl excretions excretion Because th the tho needs of ot tho child aro so 80 much greater It Itcan Itcan itcan can bo be fed proportionately a R. larger amount of ot carbohydrate than can canan canan canan an adult Sugars are arc not all tJ the same as ordinary cane s sugar gar Thc They vary ary In is their heir forms torms so that it becomes Important Important Important Im Im- Im- Im to know which of ot th the the- sugars Is IR best bes used by the b body d for tor energy purposes Tho The human bO body y has 8 a a. very ety exact regulating system system- for fol handling HUgar sugar Whatever is Iss needed for n- n i- i ergy Is iss burned In to the tissues The she remainder Is' Is stored in the liver and andIn andin andin in the muscles or orele ehe changed Into fat During starvation the tho material stored up in the liver nver and in the th muscles Is reconverted ert d Into tho the form which can 1 be 00 used t for tr r energy taken up IJ by tho blood and used as ns food If U starvation continues some of ot the tho proteins will be converter converted cO Into flu sugar HUgar nr to keep the level of the the- sugar n V In the blood from raising falling too sow low Jt It the If-the the level of ot tho the 15 sugar sugar- fall too top Iq the human humal b being bec becomes m un uti conscious and mo may snow show tho symptoms t toms ins of of- Intoxication When Insulin Is given cn sugar u nr is converted rapidly Into fat null a L system has S been de de- de eloped t for far r increasing the thc weight of r the body b dy rapidly by giving sugar r rand and Insulin at at tho the tame same tine time I J If It the pe person s n needs heeds s ener energy sugar may may may-be ay be bo given gI Thus It was a suggest suggested ted t- t ed that marathon runners bo be given gl gh en lime drops or other othe forms of sugar to help them undergo the loss that takes place 0 du during j g excess activity However sugars lugus cannot replace proteins In the met Diet A tent certain amount of sugar can in be derived from Crom proteins protein's ln i In times of stress but the complex proteins proteins- cannot be cr created in any V way 1 tr from sugars I It If It a child is t fed adlet adlet that has too much sugar and and- which is de de- n In n proteins lirot fat f fate t and nd minerals m miner miner- n r. r als It will Increase In hi weight rapIdly rapidly rap rap- leU idly dle to the tho fad fact that thata a lot lot ot otC of C water is retained in the body An ri Cant fant that is h fed an an excess amo amount nt of sugar augar is I. j Palo alo and flabby actually waterlogged nt d and is 15 not capable of ot activity nor activity nor of resisting In Infection Infants that have havo b been n on cond condensed milk or or oron on on malted milk mUk and which have riot not re received received re- re a t proper amount of ot the other ther necessary food substances may appear ap up- pear fat tat and chubby but will at nt the same time not be b properly pr adapted to Undergo tho vicissitudes of ot Infection Jn- Jn jn nor the tIle activities of or ur life |