Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-25 | Page 6 | Feed Usual Foods to Infant during Hot Summer Days

FEED USUAL FOODS ITO I ff TO INFANT DURING I f i HOT SUMMER DAYS Dont Don't Hunt Special Foods Foods Foods' for Baby Says Child Authority Dy By MYRTLE 1 MEYER ELDRED Bring your our problems about diet general care and management manage ment to Mrs Eldred in care of the Your Baby and Mine department de de- de of oC this newspaper Your questions will be answered promptly if it you OU will enclose a self cent 3 stamped envelope envelope en en- with wilh your letter Perhaps If it we could flaunt one bit bitof of bf f advice alongside the warning to keep baby cool during hot weather it would be STICK TO USUAL FOODS That sounds so simple as to be almost almost al most banal But it isn't always alwa's adhered ad ad- hered tiered to Everyone's appetite is so in hot weather that we hunt for unusual foods to tempt it Fruits and vegetables are arc less heating heat heat- ing fog foods than thai meats and cere ls and desserts We may well build our menus more liberally around these two types of foods and pad the diet less generously with the foods we must have in colder weather when there is a need greater for heat and ana energy My leaflet Foods to Avoid In the Summer Diet is available to any reader who will enclose a self ad dressed cent 3 stamped envelope with her request Most of us change climates in the summer and incidentally change changewater changewater water and not only food itself but sometimes our food lood habits This ma may maj not always be disastrous to lo adults but children invariably show the effects effects ef ef- ef- ef of drastic changes in food and water This does not noL mean that we need never ne go co away in the summer nor endeavor to find some renewed appeal in food itself by altering the diet diel But for the children we should continue the foods to which the ShOUld children children chil chil- dren are accustomed at least until they have adjusted themselves completely completely com corn to the change of scene The excitement of travel and the new Interests interests in In- n. n which mu must t be investigated immediately upon arrival upset chil dren so that even ordinary foods mo may not be well borne The burden is even en greater when we necessitate their wrestling with foods to which they are unaccustomed Simple diets of good milk which is boiled and kept ice fee cold until ready to use plain water boiled if il the source is in m any way dubious plenty of vegetables and fruits of the ordinary t types pes to which the child Is accustomed a minimum of meat some fish eggs and chicken plain de desserts erts of cooked or raw fruit and bread and butter are staples which should make mak up the summer diet What it lacks in interest and appeal is compensated for lor by the fact that it offers no unusual load lond to digestions which arc are apt to be unbalanced by bythe bythe bythe the hent heat alone and more so when there is any change of environment