Identifier: nutritiongrowthi00emer (find matches)
Title: Nutrition and growth in children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Emerson, William Robie Patten, 1869-
Subjects: Children Growth Child Nutrition
Publisher: New York, London : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ge of the caloric value of the foods that itis necessary to consider in a given case can beacquired in a comparatively short time. A Food Exhibit.—A food exhibit arrangedin 100 calory portions will help to fix relativevalues in the memory.^ Figure 17 shows suchan exhibit, from which it will be seen that suchinexpensive foods as cereals are high in foodvalue, and that it takes a quart of thin soup toequal in value a pat of butter, an egg, or fiveounces of milk. A Diet Record.—The food habits of childrenare so constant that a record of the food takenduring two consecutive days each week is a suffi-ciently accurate indication of the childs cus-tomary diet. If he eats less on one day, he willmake it up the next, and vice versa. We there-fore require from each child a 48-hour recordof all food taken, measured according to thedirections given, and the average of these two ^ Excellent food models can be obtained from The PlasticArt and Novelty Company, 1495 Thiid Avenue, New YorkCity. 92
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