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Show No Substitute For Milk Asserts Nutritionist There is no substitute for milk in the diet of the growing child, says Miss Elna Miller, extension nutritionist of the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural college. One quart of milk each day will insure the growing grow-ing child, the expectant mother, or the nursing mother with an adequate ade-quate calcium supply for building strong teeth and bones; for making mak-ing steady nerves; for supplying normal clotting power' to the blood; for keeping muscles firm and elastic; elast-ic; for insuring normal heart action ac-tion and for keeping the digestive fluids in a proper condition to do their work. Milk supplies the calcium in a form which is most completely utilized ut-ilized by body tissues, Miss Miller points out. One quart of milk supplies sup-plies as much calcium as 10 servings serv-ings of cauliflower, 13 oranges, 15 servings of strawberries or 18 servings serv-ings cf spinach. These foods rank next after milk in calcium supply. Miss Miller cites the followin5; experiment to show the value of milk in the diet of the school child. Children in the lower elementary grades were selected and graded for such behavior conditions as fatigue fa-tigue attention, alertness, and ability abil-ity to concentrate. At 9:30 a. m. the children left their class rooms for a ten-minute period. Part ot milk, while the ethers were kept for controls. Some of the children ate only a scanty breakfast and cithers ci-thers ate at a very early hour and were ready for food at this time. As the experiment progressed, the grouo which received the milk showed a 25 per cent improvement in behavior traits. They were less easily fatigued and more even tempered' tem-pered' less easily abstracted; more wide awake and they were more careful and less slovenly m .their thinking. |