| Show LIKE BIBLICAL WARRIORS WARRIOR Sr DOUGHBOYS FIND dairya DAIRY PRODUCTS nourishing FARE AS THEY GO 60 TO WAR nutritional foods also help to maintain efficiency of workers by E M director of public relations national dairy council when david prepared his armies to meet the hosts of absalom he provided them with cheese and butter to keep them fit even before that dairy products were considered essential for the welfare of fighting forces these are observations of war food administrator marvin jones who states further that today milk and its I 1 products have gone to war once more as they have through the ages never before in all that long history has milk gone to war on so many fronts and in so many diff different er ways as now it is dropped by parachutes in the remote jungles of the pacific it goes with our planes above the earth and with our submarines beneath the seas it nourishes our soldiers on the beaches and in the deserts and in the mountains of all the continents between between with all the history of dairy products as food for fighting forces behind us however it is only in recent years that their real place has begun to be appreciated for example fresh fluid milk is in the united states army ration now for the first time since the revolutionary war any comparison of the rations of americas fighting forces in world war I 1 with those of today shows a tremendous increase in the appreciation for dairy products when all of the dairy products in the garrison ration in world war I 1 are converted into terms of fluid milk equivalent they amount to a little e over 11 ounces daily the garrison ration in this war includes enough butter cheese ice cream fluid milk and concentrated milks to be equal to 37 ounces of fluid milk a day or approximately times as much total dairy products as in the first world war bigger and better men alen it is commonly stated that america today has the best fed fighting forces in the worlds history these greatly increased portions of dairy products are obviously one of the important reasons furthermore ther more according to dr george olm of the bureau of dairy industry of the U S department of agriculture over 10 per cent of all the exported to our are dairy products as compared with 2 per cent in world war I 1 not only are these fighters of today taller healthier be althier and better physical specimens but they are being kept that way with the best foods possible dairy products serve an additional and extremely important purpose of building morale as well when it comes to keeping up fighters spirits ice cream milk and milk drinks top the list war plants and factories throughout the nation are encouraging the use of milk and its products to keep workers fit so that they may produce the maximum amount of materials and equipment necessary to win the war frederick president of the thermond Therm oid company of trenton new jersey is typical of such individuals and companies he says that a between meal milk service in his plant reduced accidents by 30 per cent and brought about fewer absences better health and reduced the midday mid day fatigue periods to the end that both production and the workers pay increased all across them the nation these experiences are being duplicated in thousands upon thousands of factories and war plants all of the milk and milk products that are available are being used to speed d up production so essential in defeating hitler and tojo and thereby maintaining the american way of living truly the dairy cow and her products are this war too both on the battle fronts and on the home fronts I 1 the necessary appreciation for these products which are adding so much to the efficiency of america is the result of more than a quarter of a century of intensive nutrition education at the close of the last world war the nations leading nutrition scientists realized that a shortage of dairy products had contributed to serious physical deficiencies i in many parts of the world council Is 25 years old at their behest the dairy industry organized the national diary council as its research and educational institution for more than 25 years the dairy council has worked with educational professional and 11 4 THE AMERICAN soldier in the first world war ate and drank dairy products equivalent to 11 ounces of fluid milk a day or about one and a half glasses the fighting man of today consumes dairy foods amounting to 37 ounces of milk daily consumer groups helping to develop and disseminate the kind of information needed to build a stronger more vital america personal contacts educational movies movies exhibits publicity and more than million pieces of educational material have been disseminated As this educational program has approached its maximum fruition during recent years so the dairy industry itself has responded to the great need for more and more dairy products from 1936 to 1939 inclusive clu sive there was an average production of about billion pounds of milk annually in the united states with mounting war needs the dairy industry rapidly increased its production in 1942 in spite of labor and equipment shortages production was lifted to over billion pounds more blore dairy food in diet some of the most important changes in the american diet in recent years comes out of increased consumption of dairy products according to the national dairy council two food nutrients most likely to be deficient in the human diet are calcium and riboflavin the bureau of human nutrition and home economics of the U S department of agriculture states that both of these are prevalent in the diets in much greater quantities than a few years ago these increases adds the above mentioned bureau are due to the fact that consumption of milk ice samial FOOD NUTRIENTS 0 I 1 MAN hoursh HOURS ama 19 pounds PRODUCT PROTEIN CALCIUM riboflavin 89 1354 2008 56 I 1 58 17 t 42 11 II I 1 58 20 i cream and cheese have increased about 25 per cent during that time it is further stated that this represents one of the greatest improvements made in the human diet in recent years milk ice cream and cheese furnish 75 per cent of all the calcium and 46 per cent of all the riboflavin in the national diet calcium is important to the body as a builder and maintainer of bones and teeth continues the bureau of home nutrition and home economics it is also needed in many of the fluids which govern the blodys involuntary activities riboflavin promotes growth and is essen bial for normal nutrition at all ages insufficient quantities of riboflavin for any length of time may be followed by digestive disturbances and some types of eyestrain and a lowered general resistance Eu ropes protein deficiency adequate quantities of the highest quality proteins is another factor of real importance in the food economy such as america is now ex experiencing dr morris fishbein e editor of the journal of the american medical association asserts that when conditions now prevailing in central europe become known it will be found that protein starvation is much more serious than vitamin deficiency fici ency because of the breakdown in human tissues this in turn opens the way fo 0 o disease the proteins of milk and its products are of the highest quality also the bureau of agricultural economics of the U S department of agriculture states that milk and its products now furnish 40 per cent more protein for human nutrition than at the outbreak of the last world war in the economy of production of these three critical food nutrients the dairy cow ranks without even a close competitor according to the bureau of agricultural economics of the U S department of agriculture not only is milk the most nearly perfect food and a well balanced food but it is almost impossible to get enough calcium and riboflavin without consuming adequate quantities of milk and its products for each hours of man labor devoted to milk production 89 pounds of edible protein is obtained states the bureau of agricultural economics USDA the same amount of time devoted to egg production yields 56 pounds of protein to pork 58 pounds to steers 42 pounds and to lamb production 58 pounds plenty of calcium too in the case of calcium the diff difference er is much more marked one hundred man hours of labor devoted to milk production yields 1354 grams of calcium the same time devoted to egg production yields grams to pork production 17 grams to steers 11 grams and lambs 20 grams for riboflavin man hours spent in milk production yields 2008 2003 milligrams the same time spent in egg production will produce milligrams in pork production milligrams in beef production milligrams mill grams and to lamb milligrams when the production of these essential human nutrients is figured on the basis of efficiency of feed utilization or the amount of nutrients reproduced per acre devoted to the various kinds of livestock the dairy cow is equally efficient and in some cases even more so it is of course true that in the case of some other human nutrients the superiority of the dairy cow is less obvious but in any complete comparison she stands without a peer not only m in i the he quality of human food produced but in the economy of it as well in this same connection food administrator jones points out first that the total needs for milk and its products for our military lend lease and civilian uses are much more urgent than for many other foods secondly the dairy cow is the most efficient converter of livestock food into human food third this is the time when we need tha that t efficient utilization of livestock feeds truly bossy is in the war her product is recognized as essential in maintaining the well being of the nations fighters it is equally imbor tant in maintaining production on the home front it has contributed greatly toward improving the food habits the health and the productivity of the nation at the same time the cow is proving herself a most efficient converter of the a already 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