A manual of home-making

In general a bow is much more effective when tied than when cut and sewed. In making bows, one should alwa>^ work from side to side, and should always liring the end of the ribbon through the knot in the dii-eetion in which the end was 1; before the knot was made. I Referexces Hammond, Edith Gary. IndualriaJ DrawinR for Girls. Y(k9uf, Anna Ben. The Art of Maline^>^ 1909. iai2. L PART IV FOODS AND NUTRITION CHAPTER XVII PLANNING THE DAILY MEALS By Flora Rose Any person who has to choose the food that he is to eat him- self or that is to nourish others should know at lea,st a few ssimple principles of food setection. Food i,s to<j important in hmiian welfare to be chosen in a hapha^ai-d way. Fortunately, recent scientific work on foods has done much to make it comparatively eas>^ to acqiiirc at least a practical simple working knowledge of food values* The daily meals must supply three things: 1. Fuel. The body must be kept warm, and it must have some source of energ^^ for the work which it must do. The greater the amount of work which the body has to tlo, the greater is its need for fuel If the food does not supply sufficient fuel to do the work of the body, some of the body's tissue will be burned as fuel If too much fuel food is eaten ^ the body may store some as fat or it may become upset hy it. 2. Building materials. All the tissues of the body — muscles, nerves, bones^ blood-cells— must receive a constant supply of those substances from which they ai'e built. Children cannot grow without a liberal supply of building materials, and the tissues of grown persons will deteriorate if they are not furnished with sufficient building material to keep them in good repair » 3* Body regulating substances. The body not only needs fuel and building: material, but it must also be supplied with substances which regulate its various activities and keep its 407 I I L MANUAL HOME-MAKING W niaehinery ld good running order. These regulating substances are ueros^ary to make the fuel burn normally, to help set the building n^aterials in plaee, to aid in elinunating the wastes of the Ijody, to enalile the iMirly to grow, and to keep its machinery running at all. If no foods were inchuhHl to supply hody- regulating substances in the daily meals, the body would ^oon become damaged. GOOD FOODS FOR SUPPLTOSTG THK BODY S NEEDS To supply these three needs of the body,, diiferenl foods a™ necessaiy. The housewife should know the function of the various food materials in order to make up a balanced and healthful ration. Fuel foods Foods rich in starch. These foods should supply most of the body^s energy, becauw starch is the cheapest and most abundant of all fuel foods, and furthermore the botly can use more of this fuel than any other without danger of injury. All the starch eut-en is changed to a form of sugar called glucose, before it reaches the blood stream. This change occurs slowly, and under normal condition the ^^ machinery of the Imdy is amply al>le to liandle and transport to ^m the tissues the small amounts of sugar produced at any one time. ^M The starch-rich foods are: Cereals and cereal foods of various ^P kinds, such as breakfast foods — oatmeal, cornmeal, wheat* rice, p rye, barley — and breads; macaroni, tapioca, and otfier manu-