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Show Do You Eat Too Much Overeating Is An Especially Pernicious Per-nicious Form of Waste. Do you cat too much? The amount and combination of foods a man doing fairly hard muscular labor is as follows, according to the United States Department of 1J4 pounds of food from the Agriculture? 1J4 pounds of bread (having about the same food value as 1 pound of such cereal preparations as wheat or rye flour, oatmeal, corn meal, rice, etc.) 2 ounces, or J4 cup, of butter, oil, meat drippings, or other fat. 2 ounces, or cup, of sugar; or Yi cup of honey, or sirup, or an equivalent amount of other sweet, following: Fresh fruits and fresh or root vegetables. 12 ounces of food from a class which may be called "meats and meat substitutes";-that is moderately mod-erately fat meats, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, dried legumes (beans, soy beans, peas, lentils, cowpeas, and peanuts). Milk also belongs among these foods, but because of the large amount ox water it contains, half a glass, or 4 ounces of it would be required re-quired to equal an ounce of any nc of the others. A man who works hard out of doors all day probably would need more food than this, and one who sits all day at his desk would need less. The amounts given are suitable for a man who, like a salesman in a store, walks about more or less and does more or less of such work as lifting. A family consisting of a man and a woman, who do moderately hard muscular work, and three children say, between 3 and 12 years of age would get the food they require 'if supplied daily with : 44 pounds of bread, having about the same food value as 3 pounds of wheat or rye flour, oatmeal, oat-meal, corn meal, hominy or rice; or about 2J4 pounds of such cereals cere-als and 5 or 6 medium-sized potatoes. po-tatoes. J4 cup of fat (butter or butter with oil, beef drippings, or other fat) a weekly allowance of 2xt to 3 pounds. A little more than one cup of sugar, or a weekly allowance of 4 pounds; or an equivalent amount of some other sweet, such as 1J4 cups of sirup or honey a day, or J4 pound of dried figs or raisins a day. 4 pounds in all of fresh fruits and fresh or root vegetables. One of the two following, the choice depending on the age of the children. 3 quarts of milk and 1 pound of other foods taken from the meat and meat-substitute group. D. E. Robinson Utah Agricultural College. |