Show t y the fe AMERICAN RED CROSS aits A NATION at war must guard ix its health one sure guard and one of the best forms of preparedness pa redness is proper diet since world war I 1 the american red cross has off offered ered the nations housewives nutrition courses designed to teach both men and women how to eat and keep well and strong but americans felt that since they were the best fed people of the world they must also be the best nourished in that belief they were mistaken the army reported that one third of all applicants for war service were being rejected because of poor health bad teeth heart trouble poor eyesight skin diseases all traceable to undernourishment americas mothers and housewives were shocked into action within the past year more than women have won red cross food and nutrition certificates by attending these courses held by red cross chapters in more than 1850 counties throughout the united states in these food and nutrition courses women learned the importance of preparing and serving the right amounts of the right kinds of foods foods which contained the needed health protective qualities to keep their husbands fit for jobs in the shipyards the farms the mines the steel mills and to build their children into physically stronger americans these food conscious women have also learned how to buy food economically and how to make the best use of rationed foods and how to plan meals that enable them and their husbands to work harder longer and better to help win the war prepared exclusively for |