Show Your Baby And Mine By M tU ME 5 CEREALS IN SUMMER MAY BE DECREASED SLIGHTLY When we say that foods are arc heating heating heating heat ing we mean that they contain an abundance of calories calorie The term calorie caloric is used to measure the amount mo nt of heat required to raise a pound one pint of water 4 degrees Fahrenheit V VARIETY ARIET OF CALORIES When foods burn in digestion the heat icat generated does the work of the body ody We need a certain number of heat icat units or calories according to whether we are young or Dr old whether we are arc weighty or thin and now how much work vork we do We need not only cerain certain Lain ain numbers of heat units but we need iced them in various t types pes of food We need so many prot protein protin in calories so many carbohydrate calories so many at tat calories and so many contributed by minerals We could get all the calories c we need dally daily by eating rich sweet foods but we would lack the elements clements which build up the body Mothers repeatedly question the propriety of giving cereal in summer Its so heating they say Wont Won t tIt It t make the baby break brcak out CEREAL CALORIES That depends entirely on the kind of cereal cerell and the amounts given Iam I Iam Iam am listing cereals in calorie caloric amounts Plainly some of them hem in tablespoonful amounts would contribute contribute contribute con con- tribute very few calories while others others oth oth- ers rs would contribute many If we want the baby to have cereal twice daily dally and still not be overburdened with heat units nits he should be given those cereals which need a large amount to equal calories It is isaken taken aken for granted the baby wont won't eat that much at a meal The following amounts equal calories each One and one-fourth one cups ups of corn flakes three-fourths three cup of Dl farina one cup of oatmeal one me and one half cups of puffed putted corn one and three fourths cups of puffed rice one and three fourths cups of puffed wheat one shredded wheat biscuit three tablespoonfuLs of and two and three-fourths three cups of cooked or flaked wheat Half Halt of any of the above portions would be 50 calories S The year old year baby needs only about 40 10 calories for each pound of weight Presuming resuming that he weighs 21 pounds lis ils requirements would total 8 40 calories of which one quart of whole milk supplies During the summer summer sum sum- mer when baby isn't gaining very fast and heat is excessive we can profitably cut down on most of the common foods in the interest of enough nourishment with sith no uncomfortable uncomfortable heating surplus Tomorrow The New Baby Brings New Problems Keep your child chUd as cool as possible during the summer months Mrs Eldred's Eldred's Eldred's El- El dred's leaflet Dressing Infants and Children Childree in Summer offers practical practical practical suggestions Send a self ad dressed stamped envelope with your request to Your Baby and Mine dep department of this newspaper |