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diet is obtained from the animal foods, while the vegetable foods furnish 

 approximately nine tenths of the carbohydrates." 



d. " The common or average American family wastes as much food as 

 a French family would live upon.' ' 



e. " We live not upon what we eat, but upon what we digest." 



/. "As many lives are cut short by unhealthful food and diet as 

 through strong drink." 



References J 



Hunter, Essentials of Biology. Chap. XXIV. 



Davison, The Human Body and Health (Intermediate). 



" Foods, Nutritive Value and Cost." Farmers' Bulletin No. 23, U. S. 

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Abel, Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking. Public Health As- 

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Abel, " Beans, Peas, and Other Legumes as Food." Bulletin No. 121, 

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" Cereal Breakfast Foods." Farmers' Bulletin No. 249, U. S. Depart- 

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"Eggs and their Uses as Food." Farmers' Bulletin No. 128, U. S. 

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"Fish as Food." Farmers' Bulletin No. 85, U. S. Department of 

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** The Composition and Cooking of Meats." Farmers' Bulletin No. 

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"Milk as Food." Farmers' Bulletin No. 74, U. S. Department of 

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"Facts about Milk." Farmers' Bulletin No. 42, U. S Department of 

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"Poultry as Food." Farmers' Bulletin No. 182, U. S. Department 

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Snyder, Harry, Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value. 



"Sugar as Food." Farmers' Bulletin No. 93, U. S. Department of 

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"The Preparation of Vegetables for the Table." Farmers' Bulletin 

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"Nuts and their Use as Food." Farmers' Bulletin No. 132, U. S. 

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Hogan, Children's Diet in Home and School. 



1 Address Department of Home Economics, Ithaca, N.Y. for further infor- 

 mation, or the American School of Home Economics, 600 W. 69th St., Chicago, 

 111. 



