Show WERE WE'RE EATING oi MORE 1 I r. r I v The Theto average citizen may not know it it and he may be in in- inc inclined 1 c to di dispute it but he is eating pounds more every year 1 now now than he was as eating in in 1900 The increase is is made up oi ot II sugar ugar fruits fruits' and dairy products And that increase of 1 II pou pounds ds goes for every T person in the U. U S. S today We Ve are eating 11 il fewer cereals particularly corn meal Thirty years ago consumption con v I f. f gumption of sugar averaged 61 pounds a year per capita now v it II is rounds pounds Fats and oil jumped from 34 to 44 pounds j fruit from to pounds dairy products from to 1040 pounds pounds- Meat l consumption has changed very little ranging r i from to pound a year depending on fluctuation in III prices These interesting figures are vouched for b by y the f foodstuffs food food- stuffs division of the U. U S. S Department of Commerce I I |