Show IGNORANCE IS BLAMED FOR malnutrition IN CHILDREN large proportion of mortality among children traced to faulty nutrition by tire lilloren a bureau of the united department of I 1 abor of llie extent of malnutrition among children indicate that from one fourth to one thard of the children in the united states are malnourished why are there so many children below pirl they were not just born aliat way tor lie studies of malnourished children show that in the grea majority 0 aises they start ed life la physical condition ghen athla start aliey should have developed into healthy robust children that they failed to do so indicates that something Is wrong with their diet aud mode of living improper or diet tack of too little outdoor pi ly fresh air anil due to too work or too strenuous piny and physical phy such as bad teeth tonsils or are listed among alio causes of malnutrition hut tills agles rise to another question hy are children improperly fed liy do they leive too little sleep 1 hy are bad teeth or ad not attended to ahe answer to be that ignorance luck of pimental pi rental control aud poverty singly or together are tho underlying these bad conditions parents come in for a heaby share of blame abundant evidence has been found to show that ignorance and lack of parental control are more important causes of malnutrition than poverty aae shown that many children are improperly fed because patents do not know nhat are alio proper foods for children nor how to spend their money to get the best return la food values because they do not know that children should hae regular meals and because they do not know that drinking tea and coffee and eating indiscriminately between ecith are worse for children than adults then too there are parents who know all these things but who just don t seem to care what and hoar their children eat or when they sy ta bed llie result of this ignorance of neglect Is malnutrition may result in lowered vitality ed susceptibility to disease and retarded mental development A large aloa of mortality among children I 1 traced directly or indirectly to faulty nutrition |