Show L t V I 1 BOON TO BABIES AND PARENTS TOO experiments conduct dueled by university of nebraska food and nutrition laboratory have shown tile the value of feeding meat to babies mothers are interested from a nutrition standpoint fathers are impressed by the fact that babies are less fussy and sleep better patsy is shown here receiving a blood count at the hands of dr A K myrabo pathologist of university hospital with dr ruth leverton university nutritionist standing by to help FOR THE BETTER TOO even babies are arc affected by Ke revised eating habits features Lrea lures LINCOLN chances are your great grandmother would have no more thought of eating a love apple than of flying to china but now we call love apples by the more prosaic name of tomatoes and not only y eat them but drink em that prove much except hat peoples eating habits change the ebe university of nebraskan Ne braskas food ind nutrition laboratory is trying to tee ee to it that they change for or the li letter etter take babies six weeks old tor for instance A lot of mothers would cape ape in astonishment if you said why dont we give the baby a wee nice helping ol of meat today they might ven even tell you scornfully that babies lont get meat until at least line months old babies like it yet dr ruth M leverton uni hersity nutritionist and two have been feeding meat to liny iny babies for some time now the bables like it and the results have interested even the american association journal which get interested very easily the big thing that dr leverton and her associates found Is that meat added tor for eight weeks to the diets of babies as young as six weeks can knock out nutritional anemia this they say fay Is important because that type of 0 anemia Is common to imort infants the researchers dont pretend that D locking blocking anemia from babyhood Is going to produce a race of super men crien and women but they do say hat anemia keeps the human body little or big from per cent performance it may be that freeing infants tram anemia will let them grow strong enough to toss os off some of he ae usual childhood diseases anyway what dr leverton hopes nd and the laboratory is assisting with larther study along that line launch experiments the food and autri son don lal laboratory oratory launched its attack on anemia seven years ago it found that meat added to the diets of a group of coeds co eds reduced simple anemia during daring the war a second study revealed that meat was of benefit to blood bank donors next came a study of expectant mothers A meat sup supplement clement to their diets boosted their hemoglobin values which is a fancy way of saying they did not become anemic encouraged by these results the ce researchers searchers turned to babies when the study started strained meat tor for babies was not yet on the market but meat processors cooperated and produced strained meat of custard consistency which could be added to baby formulas since then a meat product has come on the market commercially in cooperation with doctors at C child saving institute in omaha I 1 at st thomas orphanage in lincoln and with a small group of parents the battle of babies versus anemia was begun at the outset a third of in n ounce of strained meat was added daily to the formulas for babies six ix weeks old this amount was increased until at the end of a week in an average of a full ounce of meat it a day was being added show marked gain records of child saving institute disclose ilis close that the 18 meat babies showed bowed an average gain of per lent cent in hemoglobin content of the blood at the end of eight weeks rhear competitors 15 babies of the same age group and same general condition who did not get meat lost per cent during the same period the red cell values of the meat eaters jumped an average of 0 per cent while their competitors chalked up a gain of only 62 per cent nurses at the me institute reported the babies who got meat seemed less fussy and slept better than their competitors the institutions pediatrician said the general physical condition of the meat eaters was better too results comparable to those at child saving institute were obtained at st thomas orphanage among the babies in private homes the records were not as spectacular probably because the routine of 0 care was not as exacting but even in the homes the meat eating babies showed no loss in hemoglobin content of the blood while their competitors peti tors who did not get meat lost 8 per cent it was this ability of the meat eaters to avoid hemoglobin loss that the researchers consider important according to dr leverton it means that the protein in the meat diet kept the babies from taking the Gown downward ward road to nutritional anemia |