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10 A.M. Warm milk, one cup, with a cracker or piece of very
stale bread and butter.
2 P.M. Soup, four ounces;
or, beef juice, two ounces.
Meat: chop, steak, roast beef or lamb or chicken.
A baked white potato;
or, boiled rice.
Green vegetable: asparagus tips, string beans, peas,
spinach; all to be cooked until very soft, and
mashed, or preferably put through a sieve; at
first, one or two teaspoonfuls.
Dessert: cooked fruit--baked or stewed apple, stewed
prunes.
Water; no milk.
6 P.M. Cereal: farina, cream of wheat, or arrowroot, cooked
for at least one half hour, with plenty of salt,
but without sugar;
or, milk toast;
or, bread and milk;
or, stale or dry bread and butter and a glass of milk.
PART III
THE DIET OF OLDER CHILDREN (FOURTH TO TENTH YEAR)
Throughout this period the largest meal should always be in the middle
of the day, and a light supper given, very much like that described
for the third year. During the first half of this period, milk may be
allowed once either between breakfast and dinner or dinner and supper;
no other eating between meals should be permitted, but water should be
allowed freely.
MILK AND CREAM
_What part of the diet should milk form during childhood?_
It should form a very important part up to the tenth year; nothing can
take its place. There are comparatively few children who cannot take
and digest milk if it is properly fed.
_Why is milk so advantageous?_
Because no food that we possess has so high a nutritive value as milk,
for the amount of work required of the organs of digestion. It is,
therefore, peculiarly adapted to the diet of the child.
_What are the essential points in the use of milk?_
It should be clean and fresh, but not too rich. It is a mistake to
select for any children the rich milk of a Jersey herd and use it as
though it were an ordinary milk. For children who have difficulty in
digesting milk, it should be somewhat diluted, i.e., one part of water
to four parts of milk, or salt or bicarbonate of soda should be added.
It is also important not to give milk at meals when fruits, especially
sour fruits, are allowed.
_How much milk may advantageously be given?_
The average child with good digestion should take from one and one
half pints to one quart of milk daily, this including not only what
the child drinks but what is served upon cereals and in other ways. It
is seldom wise to allow a child to take as much as two quarts daily,
as a more mixed diet for most children is better.
_To what extent may cream be used?_
Older children do not require so large a proportion of fat in their
food as do infants, and the use of cream, especially very rich cream,
often results in disturbances of digestion. The use of too much or too
rich cream is a common cause of the coated tongue, foul breath and
pale gray stools, often called "biliousness."
_Is not cream useful in overcoming the constipation of children?_
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