Show DIETARY HABITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CHILD nothing Is quite so important to health as food the of a i child depends on it and his future stamina will reflect nutritive discrepancies in babyhood the mother who thinks that there s time enough ahead for corrective diet Is labor laboring iii under 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 tabes to get through life and especially at its beginning but it needs supplementing because its chemistry Is low in a few needed essentials senti als and the child set in his all milk diet resists other foods doctors prescribe varied foods doctors long ago recognized the value of adding other foods to tile the diet of milk early in babyhood in order to offset future finicky appetites thus the infant of six Is weeks gets his cod ller oil and orange juice or tomato juice a little later a spoonful or two of prepared vegetable juice or even the strained vegetable itself at a period that in the past would have been considered murderous he gets his bit of cereal part of the yolk of an eg egg a snack of baked potato and mashed stewed fruit whatever baby Is given should of course be absolutely under the doctors direction there Is it a difference in babies but the great truth that many mothers do not know Is that children 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 Is that as mill 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 lly suggestions eions here are only for one purpose that Is to show why and how aversions to needed foods are started food habits which mean flavor habits have to be cultivated early |