Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THERE is a very marked difference in the lives and activities of the child and the adult. The difference makes it necessary that food be so selected that it shall best meet the peculiar needs of each. The Amount The child's metabolism is much more of Food . active than that of the adult; he consumes more of the different elements of food and destroys much larger quantities than his elders. This is because the child must not alone supply its system with material to repair customary waste, but in addition it must supply the elements for continued growth and development. These needs are such that the average child between the ages of five and fifteen years will demand a supply of almost twice the amount of proteid (compounds of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.), and contained largely in meats, vegetables, eggs, and milk, in proportion to his weight than an adult. It must not be understood by this that a child will require twice the amount of meat, for instance (which is very rich in proteid), as the average adult eats, because I have taken the trouble to determine that the average adult eats about four times the amount of meat which is actually required by his system. Therefore, accepting this average, the child's portion would not be twice that unnecessary amount, but twice the amount actually needed by the adult. Roughly speaking, then, the amount needed by the active child would be about one-half of what the average adult actually is in the habit of taking. It might seem from these statements that Eating with h the Adults it would be a trying task to regulate the child's food to meet its needs and still have the child contented at the same table when with older members of the family. But this is not so, for if the parent understands in general the food ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.