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Show Child Suffers If Diet Lacks Food Values By MTBTXE MEYER ELDBED There k general disposition to considT a dish of "good soup" to ba compIt mal for child. Soup la a delightful preliminary to dinner or lunch, but it must not be made to bear th burden of fur-alanine fur-alanine th child all the nourish- ment of any one meal. Broths spur th appetlt, but ar exceedingly low In calorio value. The vegetables, or cereals, or thick-ening thick-ening added to broth may Increase Its nutritional value, but even this does not make It adequate to suffice for a meal. Blow Gala i Mrs. W. a writes: "My 19-month-oid aon welgha 21 pounds, has 12 teeth and la very active. H was a prematura five-month baby, but he has gained slowly and has a poor color. The soft spot is about th siz of a silver dollar and be has a low, protruding abdomen. "He has always been feeding problem, unable to take rich milk, or bananas, or other foods he should have. He now gets one quart of vitamin D milk, cooked cereal, vegetables, vege-tables, fruit and meat broth, as well as sweiback and ereaa. i-iees sena , me a diet list I am so eager to help him to be a healthy child." Rich milks ar not essential to IsJsi s a si 1st a. Mat ajaaeasssr a en east' SjalalaV lgvjp we j j i ejs Wf SW eawwsrsewew nw vhvw - broth), fish, cheese, chicken, etc, decidedly are. Th lack of cod liver ,. oil Is marked, especially because of the child's slow bony development. Th large soft spot at this as and the protruding abdomen are significant signifi-cant of faulty nutrition. Other Foods Heeded I hope you'll Include in the diet the many other foods which are permissible per-missible at this ags and conscientiously conscien-tiously dose the boy with cod liver oil or eome other vitamin D product in addition to the milk. I could certainly consult doctor, doc-tor, so as to be certain that there ar no other medicines which he would consider advisable te improve im-prove his condition rapidly. You may have the leaflet on "Feeding From Twelve to Eighteen Months" for only a self-addressed and S-cent stamped envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred, care of the your baby and mine department of The Salt Lake Telegram. Mrs. J. L. B. : Food, and food only, will contribute to an Increase in weight I know of no food value in , th product you mentioned, J |