HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14067, 23 May 1946, Page 5

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

V.UXYIMJ THE DIET (By the Department oi' Health) There is a general idea in our community that the harder the work one dors the more meat and bread and butter one needs. It is perfectly true that the more muscular work we do the more energy foods wo require—more fat, more bread, more cereal. More protein there must be too, Id keep the diet balanced, and to provide the extra fat needed. In practice our heavy workers have been too limited in supplying their extra needs to more meat and more bread. They could widen the range of their extra energy supplies with improvement in their health —bacon, oatmeal, more potatoes instead of so much broad, and more milk. Let us look at the diet required by an office worker and that needed by a hush-feller, and see how the extra needs of the latter should be met. The white collar man should have 1 pint of mi!k daily, the husa worker 'll pints; one ounce of cheese a day for the desk man, two ounces for heavy manual work; oi meat 4 ozs is plenty for the former, but the latter requires over twice as much and will need to ckc out his ration with rabbit, or peas, beans, and lentils served with his meat; both require an egg a day and if Ibcy can’t get this should use peas and beans in the diet on .eggless days; the office’ worker requires about 7 ozs of potato, (he bushworker at least twice this, with a good sized helping of carrot as well, green vegetables, 3 to 4 ozs lor the one. becomes double that for the other; each needs about the same amount of fruit—preferably one c ilrun type and one other each day. The bush worker needs the little extra butter allowed him in his ration, and he needs more fat. which he’ll got from his extra meat, or from suet puddings, or bacon. Both types of worker ought to have part of their bread wholemeal; '8 ozs of bread for the ofip-e man becomes up to 20 ozs in the bush-feller. The latter needs 2 ozs of oatmeal against 1 for the office man.