OCR Text |
Show FUEL FOR THE BODY In addition to an understanding of the five food groups, it is well to know what proportions to use of the foods in each group, the United States Department of Agriculture points out. As a rule the diet will he sufficiently suffi-ciently bulky and flavorful and will furnish the right proportion of starch, fat and sugar for the taste of most people if the vegetables and fruits furnish about 20 per cent of the fuel ; the milk, meat, eggs and similar foods, 20 per cent; the cereal foods, 30 per cent; sweets, 10 per cent, and fats and fat foods, 20 per cent. - A diet made up on these proportions propor-tions will furnish satisfactory kinds and amounts of protein, mineral substances and vitamines. |