Foods and home making

Can you answer these questions ? If not, look for the answers as you study this chapter.* 1 i. In the foods shown in Figure i, what is substituted for coffee — the commonly used breakfast beverage? Fruit, cereal with top milk or cream, eggs, toast, butter, and milk make a fine breakfast. Do you eat these foods ? 2. If the breakfast shown in Figure i were planned for the grown- ups in your family, would you change the kind or the quantity of food for a young child? 3. How would you change the breakfast for a person who works in a lumber camp ? 4. The following was printed on a menu card in a family hotel : 1 Note to the Pupil: Each chapter of this book begins with a group of questions. You will probably not be able to answer all of them before studying the chapter. You should be able to answer all of the questions after studying the chapter. If necessary, repeat your study until you can answer every question. 1 2 Breakfast Baked Apple or Orange Juice or Cereal with Cream Toast or Rolls Tea Coffee Milk Which would be the more wholesome choice : Cereal, toast, and milk, or fruit, toast, and milk? Give a reason for your answer. What foods are suitable for breakfast ? Can you believe the four white rats in Figure 2 are of the same age? Two of the Nutrition Laboratory, Battle Creek Sanitarium Figure 2. Four White Rats of the Same Age The two larger white rats with sleek fur and bright eyes were fed oatmeal and milk. The two small, weak animals were fed on buttered toast and coffee. Is there any question which breakfast is better ? To be sure, buttered toast is a good food, but such foods as milk and fruits are needed with it. These foods affect human beings in about the same way in which they affect white rats. It pays to eat wholesome foods. white rats have plump bodies, soft fur, and bright eyes. They frisk around and act as if they felt well and were happy. The other two are smaller. Their fur is bristly and their eyes dull. If anyone touches them, they snap and snarl. They have bad dispositions and appear to be unhappy. What made these brother rats so different ? The answer is the kind of food they ate. Note the kind of food fed to each group. Wholesome Breakfasts 3 It has been found that a diet of buttered toast and coffee will affect human beings in about the same way in which it affects white rats. They can eat the same kind of food that we do and digest it much as we do. A rat, however, does not live as long as a human being. It has been estimated that the average human being lives about thirty times as long. This means that a day of a rat’s life is equal to thirty days or one month of a boy’s or girl’s life. Changes in growth take place much more rapidly in a rat than in a human being. This fact makes the white rat a very valuable animal on which to experiment. By feeding a white rat certain foods, we can see in a short while how they affect it. What are some breakfast menus? Just as oatmeal and milk are good breakfast foods for white rats, so they are good break- fast foods for girls, boys, and grown-ups. Many persons, how- ever, want a greater variety of foods for breakfast. Fruit , either cooked or uncooked, is a wholesome food for breakfast. It has a tart taste and is a good appetizer with which to start breakfast.