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Show Jf FARM and HOME fTAi vtai AOKcoL-raiuL ODiuol Exrmao Bm Mary Lois Reichert Mable Merrell Home Demonstration Agents Mothers Need Better Diets Many mothers and their teen-aged teen-aged daughters live on diets dangerously dan-gerously deficient in the nutrients needed to get their work done, keep a good disposition and maintain main-tain good health and good looks. This is the conclusion of Elna Miller, extension nutritionist at the USAC in Logan, after looking into the matte-r of diets. "They're the poorest fed folks in the nation." na-tion." Miss Miller says. "Some don't eat enough. Others eat too much." Here is the picture studies give of the eating habits of the American Ameri-can female: 1. She skimps on breakfast and eats much less than the recommended recom-mended third of the day's colories. 2. Her lunches are hit-or-miss meals if she eats alone or with the children. She eats better lunches lun-ches when the man of the house comes home at noon. She eats too many snacks if she sits at the bridge table all afternoon. She has no snacks at all when she puts in strenuous hours of cleaning and really needs the energy. 3. Dinners are heavy, but her total day's food supply has far too little calcium and not enough B or C vitamins. Her iron supply is too low to keep her blood healthy. 4. She may try to follow some diet fad to lose weight and further impair her health while she keeps the accumulated fat. She may have more of a weight problem than her mother had because be-cause heT mother used up about 3000 or more mailories a day just keeping house. She climbed stairs, she hung out the wash, she swept with a broom. Today's homemaker with her modern helpers can't use up 2000 calories in her day's activities. As the years add up, her food requirements grow lower and lower. low-er. Her eating habits stay unchanged un-changed while her exercise decreases. de-creases. "If you are one of these home-makers home-makers with a weight problem, keep your protien intake high. Use a wide variety of such foods as lean meat, fish, eggs, milk, and cheese. Take plenty of fruits and dark green and dark yellow vegetables. vege-tables. Take some whole wheat or enriched bread or cereal. Use a little fat or oil." |