| Show HOUSEWIFE MUST HELD HEED DIETETICS S Problem of Planning Meals 13 Is Important One 0 By EDITH WITH M. M BARBER I problem of providing food for rott forI T Tim I ho tito family demands from the housewife house house- wife wICo of ot today much more than It did a generation ago when the principal aim olm was to furnish the plentiful appetizing meals which have been made mode famous n liS as the meals mother used to make moke This ruts Is and should be still part of a housewife housewife's job but It must now be subservient to the principles of the science of ot nutrition which has hns been developed In the la last t few years The first aim of the tho housewife now Is to provide her family with the food which contains all nil the elements clementi upon which growth development and ond health de de- pend At the same time experience has bas proved that food must be well combined and ond attractively prepared In to order to stimulate appetite which will Insure that these foods are actually ell eaten ten Because the science of nutrition Is still so young there have not been easily cas cas- ily Ur available as many helps to the housewife as ae are desirable The Foundations of Nutrition by Dr Mary Swartz Swarts Hose Rose professor of nutrition at Teachers Teacher college Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- olum bia bla university is a book for the housewife housewife house house- wife as well as ns for the tho student 1 I od ad Iso viso tho the housewife however howe If it she Is Isa Isa a beginner Interested In to the study of nutrition to begin with the last lost two chapters In both these chapters wo we find the practical application of the principles of ot nutrition and which the student will wish to understand In the first pin place co The Tho housewife will be In Ina Inn n R hurry to apply tho the suggestions In the two last chapters but after litter reading and digesting them will almost certainly certainly crr- crr bo be Interested enough to begin at the tho beginning of the book bOlk To quote Mrs Hose Itose herself Th The novice In nutrition Is like a person Ielson who has never ne seen a n watch when he tie looks nt lit It first all 1111 he be observes Is U IsI a I shiny case with a n glass front covering a adial adial dial bearing numbers from Crom 1 to 12 2 12 and hands which revolve upon It It lt How flow different the mental picture of or the I watchmaker who with his minds mind's eye ee looks through the tie metal case as If It wore were transparent ond and beholds delicate wheels heels Jewels screws springs all nil related related related re re- to each other and harmoniously contributing to the beautifully coordinated co movement mo of the tho whole whale The fhe housewife first of all nil wants to know what time It Is and how to tell time before she learns how to wind and regulate a watch much less how It Is put together These last chapters tell 1111 the time Mrs Rose Hose has hIlS given us a new method meth method od of Judging and comparing values of various arlous foods Nutritionists have l found the number of ot calories the amounts of protein calcium Iron and phosphorus which are needed dally b by man roan The number of ot calories fn an on average man Is considered as ns a II tiny day tenth One of those calories should come from protein A l hundred cal calorie cal cal- orle orie portion of ot o thirtieth one of the days day's ration of a n food fOll then lien Is an all energy energy en In ergy share An Ideal share would he tie hea a UK 11 calories portion which carried with 1 Ith It thirtieth one of a share of ot the amount of protein calcium und and Iron needed each day The vitamin cannot be measured In la numbers but each cacti share u should have liberal amounts of the I ho various vitamins Of course e the Ideal f food od Is 18 nonexistent s some me f foods ds having hav hay ing tag a large amount of Ium for instance Instance In in- stance and at nt tho the same time a low tow amount of Iron The sum of the foods for the day however should reath reatha a n thirty share shore total which Is quite possible possible pos pos- sible on a varied diet A typical adequate menu for flit fans a II d day y yat at d tow low price Is given ghen 03 as follows Breakfast Farina with l I H J cups milk and 1 ta tablespoon ta sugar Graham bread U 4 lb with molasses and coffee coCCe Luncheon linked Baked beans benns with pork fat Graham bread breall U pound Cheese Cheel e Milk H cup Clip In coffee Dinner fleet Beef stew with p potato tato tomato and beef beet fat naw Haw flaw cabbage Graham bread U j lb The section on on well well balanced balanced diets diet for Cor growing gro children the school pre child chilli the Adolescent boy and girl lISwell ot lIS otwell aswell well os liS th the family diets will particularly particularly arly hl Interest the mother who Is ts vitally concerned In giving her child a 1 foundation foundation tion of health C C. Belt 1111 Syndic Syndicate |
