FOOD ECONOMY 



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Milk contains all the food nutrients, and in about the 

 right proportion for a child. Rapidly growing boys and 

 girls require more food, and more protein food than do those 

 who are older. As a rule boys 

 and men need more food than 

 girls and women. 



Each one of us must deter- 

 mine also whether he or she can 

 easily digest certain kinds of 

 foods. Some of us, for example, 

 cannot eat strawberries or to- 

 matoes without suffering from 

 indigestion, while some of us are 

 able to eat these foods, but can- 

 not take others, for " what is one 

 another man's 



globule$ 



IS 



Composition of milk. What per cent 

 is water? 



man s meat 

 poison." 



Food economy. A study of the table on page 106 

 will show us that the same amount of money will buy 

 vastly different amounts of energy and building material 

 in food. The American family, as a rule, does not expend 

 its money wisely in foods. We should eat to live, and not 

 live to eat. We should learn to like and use cheaper 

 foods which have the same nutritive value as do the more 

 expensive ones, and above all we should learn to eat 

 more fruits, more vegetables and cereals, more milk, and 

 less meat, because meat is more expensive, and because 

 there is danger of eating too much protein. We Americans 

 are fond of meats, and eat more than is good for us. As 

 a result we make some of our organs work overtime and 

 put a strain upon them in order to get rid of the extra 

 protein which forms wastes harmful to the body. 



