For most people, this meal consists usually of some well-cooked cereal, coffee 

 and milk, eggs, toast, butter, marmalade, and fruit. This is eaten somewhere 

 between 6 and 8 a.m., and is wisely succeeded 



BY A MORE SUBSTANTIAL MEAL AT NOON, 



or 1 p.m., to restore energy after the morning's work. An interval of six or seven 

 hours is none too long for an adult before supper. If this meal be the heaviest 

 in the day, two or three hours must elapse before going to bed. 



(3.) FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 



such an interval as six hours would be too long; for, where an adult thrives on 

 three meals a day and long intervals, a child and growing lad or girl require four 

 meals in the day and shorter intervals. Why is this? 



(.) Because a child has to add to its size as well as to repair the wear ,-111.1 



tear of his body: i.e., he has to grow: 



(&.) Because a child lives much faster than grown persons, his bodily activities 

 are greater; so that relatively to his weight he requires more food ami 

 that more frequently: 



(c.) Because, like all small animals, a child has a larger surface in proportion 

 to his bulk than is the case when growth is complete, consequently h,. 

 loses heat more rapidly and his furnace calls for more frequent " stoklngs. 1 * 



A HUNGRY CHILD, 



that is to say, when hunger is felt for two or three hours before it can be satinvd 

 s a starved child; and a starved child suffers arrest of growth an.l a warping 

 of development. During the twenty-four years of active growth hunger should 

 be thoroughly satisfied at each meal. Later in life it is wise to rise from table 

 able to eat more. 



THE SUITABLE REGULATION OF A CHILD'S MEALS 



is, without doubt, a serious difficulty in most homes, where there i no " nursery '1 

 and all the household eat together, with the same length of interval. To attempt 

 o evade the difficulty by giving "lunches" to children at odd hours between in.'a.s 

 cannot be too strongly condemned. The subject will be dealt with in greater detail 

 lii the forthcoming bulletin on "The Care of Children." 



THE ATTRACTION AND VALUE OF VARIED FOOD 



was touched upon in Bulletin 36, on "The Preparation of Food"; but calls for 

 fuller treatment than could then be devoted to it, on account of the Import,, , 

 part it plays in good health, temperance, and happv homes 



of &^F.*Xy * exercised In reason ' just as is the 



of JSSSX? haS aSSUmed InCreaSe 



THE SIGHT AND ODOUR OF PLEASANT FOOD 

 and the act of chewing what is palatable are followed, in health by a 



not, therefore, neg.ect or despise what the Germans 

 "PLEASURE-GIVING THINGS" 



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