The greatest care must be taken to avoid inducing fat-intolerance—for fat-intolerance means.that the child must eventually become undernourished.
Starches and sugars and fats provide the body with warmth and energy. The active, thin, eager, and intelligent child needs plenty of fuel foods to give him the energy which he insists on expending.
But the body does not lum up the fats as rapidly and completely as it does ihe starches and sugars. A certain amount of the latter in the diet not only provides energy but also helps to burn up the fats completely and avoids waste products circulating in the body and producing biliousness and other ill This explains the longing, inexplicable to the uninstructed, which the sufferer from a bilious attack often shows for sugar. The usual reaction to this longing is that he mustnt have the sweets or sugar on any account. Yet if he did, it would help him to recover! bread. The results of investigations into the nutritive value of bread emphasize the importance of bread and butter in the dietary. It has been shown that certain fats, such as lard or butter, reduce the effects of calcium deficiency in the diet, presumably by rendering the actual calcium content of the food more completely assimilable, Bread and butter, in addition to the pint of milk that every child should be allowed daily, should be the chief source of his fat, though if he likes it a little meat fat can be given too.
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