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The boy who plays baseball requires a larger amount of food 

 than the boy who merely watches the game, and the girl who plays 

 on the basketball team requires more to eat than the girl who does 

 only embroidery work. 



The table given applies to boys and girls of average weight. 

 In cases where the boy or girl is somewhat over or below average 

 weight, allowance should be made accordingly in determining the 

 number of Calories necessary per day, since greater weight 

 demands more Calories and smaller weight less Calories. 



The following table, compiled from data in Feeding the 

 Family, by Doctor Rose, indicates the number of Calories usually 

 required daily for each pound of weight during the growing period : 



Calories Needed 

 Age Per Pound 



Under one year 40-45 



During the second year 40-43 



During the third year 37-40 



During the fourth year 37-40 



During the fifth year 35-37 



During the sixth year 34-35 



During the seventh year 32-34 



During the eighth year 30-35 



During the ninth year 30-35 



During the tenth year 28-32 



During the eleventh year 28-32 



During the twelfth year 28-32 



During the thirteenth year 25-30 



During the fourteenth year 20-25 



During the fifteenth year 20-25 



During the sixteenth year 20-25 



From the seventeenth year on according to activity 



The Daily Diet. We lead such varied lives that no one model 

 diet can be made for all families. Conditions of occupation, cli- 

 mate, available food supplies, and health are markedly different. 

 The city family may require much less food than a farmer's fam- 

 ily, whose members are constantly doing work requiring much 

 muscular effort. People like the Esquimos, living in a very cold 

 region, need a larger amount of food that will produce heat than 

 people like the Hottentots, who live in a torrid climate. Surely a 



