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THE STORY OF MILK 

 MILK FOR GROWING CHILDREN 



When the child is big enough to thrive on undiluted, 

 unmodified cow's milk, it should not only be allowed, 

 but urged, to continue on a diet in which this, the 

 best of all foods, is the most essential part. An excel- 

 lent form in which to feed milk to the growing child is 

 junket. Eaten slowly with a spoon as a pudding, it is 

 exposed to the action of digestion much better than 

 milk swallowed by the glassful in a hurry and even if it 

 is cold there is no danger of defective rennet action in 

 the stomach because such action has already taken 

 place. 



Doctors still disagree as to the desirability of pas- 

 teurizing milk for young children (see " Pasteurization,'' 

 Chapter I), some holding that the digestibility is af- 



