VITAMIN SHORTAGE
Shortage of vitamins A and I) is common in the diet of the growing child who is having too much sweet and starchy foods. These foods build fat and flabby children, who are liable to many more or loss serious disorders. Among the more serious arc rickets and lung troubles. His unbalanced diet has resulted in a low resistance to disease, and although the child may look big his weight is really a handicap. Exercise in the fresh air is just as important as a wholesome diet, but where the diet is deficient, this necessary help to development cannot take place without fatigue. Give your child plenty of butter and fatty foods. Xot bacon fat or lard, hut the fats in meat, fish, and eggs. Green vegetables, too, are .important. Cod liver oil or cod liver'.oil and malt will supply any deficiency, for they are both rich in these necessary vitamins.
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Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 11
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153VITAMIN SHORTAGE Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 11
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