Show Daily Health S Service n By DR MORRIS Your teeth have about as much resistance nce to decay as your bod body has In general to Infection Therefore Therefore There There- fore to save your teeth or those of your child you should take the same steps that you would consider in building up your bod body First of course is direct treatment treatment treat treat- ment of or the teeth by suitable amounts of or exercise for the gums gum and the dentition The frozen food diet of Eskimos helps them save their teeth Coarse fo food d helps to scrape the surfaces of the teeth anC and to exercise the gums But o of even gr greater ater importance is istha istha tha nutrition of your our body This in involves involves involves in- in particularly vitamins A C Cand Cand Cand and D and provision of sufficient calcium and phosphorus These minerals min rain seem to take part in the building building build build- ing up o of sound bones and teeth Most diets usually are deficient in calcium Phosphorus is found with witha a n. fair lair amount of abundance in the tissue of meat and in eggs Milk is the best source of calcium and this includes such milk products as cheese The Important point however is not so 50 much that of getting calcium into your body or your childs child's body as it is of getting this mineral in such form that it can be used by your body Apparently the use of or calcium depends de de- de not only on the amount eaten but on the mineral equilibrium of or orthe the body the actions of various glands a suitable intake to vitamins vitamins' A and D and perhaps also to some extent the relationship of alkali to acid in the body The best diet for your child therefore there there- fore ore for lor the prevention of dental decay should include daily one quart of oC milk either as milk itself or in soups puddings cereals and similar foods at least three servings o ol of vegetables of which one like lettuce lettuce let let- tuce or celery may be raw and two cooked at least one serving ol of frUits preferably fruits like the orange and perhaps also another another an an- other serving of cooked fru fruit tIn t. t In addition to this the child hild should have one serving daily of meat one of cereal perhaps one egg and some bread and butter Everyone knows that it is difficult to correct the diet of a child particularly particularly particularly par par- when you are planning that diet for tor scientific purposes It Itis Itis Itis is not well to overemphasize eating too much because ts brings about a 3 negative attitude in the child and causes it to resist food simply to exert its will power |