Show DIETARY HABITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CH CHILD ILD nothing Is quite so important to health as food the of a child depends on it and his future stamina will reflect nutritive discrepancies in babyhood the mother who thinks that there is time enough ahead for corrective diet Is laboring under a traditional delusion that up lip 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 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 the diet of milk early in babyhood in order to offset future finicky appetites thus the infant of six weeks gets his cod liver 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 be gets gels his bit of cereal part of the yolk of an 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 a difference in babies but the great truth that many mothers do not know Is that ahll children with touchy appetites at SIX or eight or ten years of a age ge are the results of fixed preference in babyhood caution must be exercised another thin thing that should be remembered is that as milk must niu be the alpha and omega of his meal therefore the amounts of other food given must not be so great that the willingness to talce take milk Is decreased the doctor will give you lists and schedules for feeding my suggestions 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 hae haae to be cultivated early |