106 FOOD NUTRIENTS 



A. Consult the tables of caloric values of foods in the index. 



1. Fill in the number of calories of protein, fat, and carbohydrates for 

 each food you have listed. Total the columns. 



2. Add the totals. Compare your actual totals with the number of 

 calories you really need according to the given table. 



a. Are you eating enough, too little, or too much food ? 



b. Is the ratio of protein, fat, and carbohydrates correct? 



c. Consult the suggestions given in the discussion of foods and see 

 whether all the types of food needed are in your diet. 



3. ^Vhat changes, if any, should be made in your diet ? 



a. Give reasons in each case. The age-weight tables are not 

 • autlientic opinions as to malnutrition. They are, however, some- 

 what indicative of the condition of nutrition. 



Questions 



1. Define a food and a nutrient. 



2. What elements in foods are fuel for oxidation ? 



3. What are vitamins? What are their value in the diet? 



4. What are deficiency diseases? Name several. 



Supplementary Reading 



Harrow, Benjamin, Vitamins (E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.). 



McCollum & Simmonds, The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition (The Macmillan 



Co.). 

 Sherman, Chemistry of Food and Nutrition (The Macmillan Co.). 

 Stieglitz, J. O., and others. Chemistry in Medicine (Chemical Foundation Inc.). 



