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Show Doctor in the Kitcherf by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council TIPS ON PROBLEM EATERS As a homemaker you're faced with the challenge of convincing problem eaters in your family to change some of their attitudes about food. Sometimes you feel like you're at your wit's end. Nothing seems to work? Well, here are some tips that may help: Does your teen-age daughter skip breakfast? Is her excuse that she's just not hungry? Or that she's watching her weight? That she doesn't have time? Some girls, of course, say that "food in the morning makes me sick." You might start to change the situation by insisting that she try a single food at breakfast, such as a piece of fruit, a scoop of cottage cheese, or a glass of milk or cup of cocoa. Then gradually within two or three weeks add other foods. It may mean your daughter will have to get up earlier, but once begun she'll probably agree it's a good idea to not be so rushed every morning. Make Breakfast Attractive Other ideas that may make breakfast more attractive include: in-clude: 1) keep easy-to-fix foods on hand such as ready-to-eat cereal ce-real and milk; 2) try a breakfast with a sandwich and glass of milk, or a hard-cooked egg; 3) point out that a person is less likely to overeat at lunch if an adequate breakfast has been eaten. eat-en. Weight control is easier when a morning meal is enjoyed; and 4) urge your "breakfast skippers" skip-pers" to eat breakfast for two or three weeks and then honestly judge for themselves if they don't feel better at school oi work. Need help in encouraging your family to eat vegetables? Try serving vegetables raw as well as cooked. Children especially may like such finger foods as carrot car-rot sticks, celery or cucumber sticks, green pepper strips, cau-liflowerets. cau-liflowerets. You may also perk up your child's appetite for vegetables vege-tables if he helps prepare vegetable vege-table dishes. Watch newspaper food pages for new and appetizing appetiz-ing ways to cook vegetables. Fats In The Diet . Finally, do you have a man in your house who is worried about fats in his diet? Well, some fat is necessary in our meals. It's a concentrated source of energy. Fat supplies essential fatty acids, and is a carrier of vitamins A, D, E, and K. Fats help the body use protein and carbohydrates more efficiently and since fats taste good and digest more slowly slow-ly they help make our meals more satisfying. As far as fats and heart disease dis-ease are concerned no one really knows whether lowering the cholesterol cho-lesterol in your blood will prevent pre-vent a heart attack or not. But it is true that you can lower blood choleserol by pulating your total diet. My : :c is that unbss your physician has suggested sug-gested otherwise, men who are apparently healthy ought to eat a well balanced diet chosen from a wide variety of foods. In other words, follow the four food group plan including moderate amounts of fats |