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Show DIETARY HABITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CHILD Nothing is quite so important to health as food. The wellbeing of a child, depends on it, and his future fu-ture stamina will reflect nutritive discrepancies In babyhood. The mother who thinks that there is time enough ahead for corrective diet is laboring UDder a traditional delusion that up until two years of age and sometimes longer, milk is the sum total of everything. Milk is the warp and the woof of what It takes to get through life, and especially at Its beginning. But it needs supplementing, because its chemistry Is low in a few needed essentials es-sentials and the child, set in his all-miik all-miik diet, resists other foods. Doctors Prescribe Varied Foods. Doctors long ago recognized the value of adding other foods to the diet of milk, early in babyhood, in order to offset future finicky appetites. appe-tites. Thus the infant of six weeks gets his cod-liver oil and orange juice or tomato juice; a little later a spoonful or two of prepared vegetable vege-table juice or even the strained vegetable veg-etable Itself. At a period that in the past would have been considered consid-ered murderous he gets his bit of cereal, part of the yolk of an egg, a snack of baked potato and mashed stewed fruit. Whatever today's baby Is given, should, of course, be absolutely under un-der the doctor's direction. There is a difference in babies. But the great truth that many mothers do not know is that children chil-dren with touchy appetites at six or eight or ten years of age, are the results of fixed preference in babyhood. Caution Must Be Exercised. Another thing that should be remembered re-membered is that as milk must be the alpha and omega of his meal, therefore the amounts of other food given must not be so great that the willingness to take milk is decreased. The doctor will give you lists and schedules for feeding. My suggestions sugges-tions here are only for one purpose. That is to show "why" and "how" aversions to needed foods are started. start-ed. Food habits, which mean flavor habits, have 'to be cultivated early. |