FOOD AND FADS
Appetite is a good guide as to the tonount of food that a child should eat, of course, that his meals are Wain and wholesome. A child will llmost always overeat if he is given ifllimited cakes and sweets.
The average six-year-old boy eats half '8 much as a grown-up; at 16 he Usually takes more than a man. Great care should be taken to present children becoming fussy about weir meals. If they are allowed to pick fad chooso you are storing up future rouble.
If a child refuses to eat plain, whole|°me focjd ho should be allowed to eave the table. The loss of ono meal toes no harm. It merely rests tho (tomach/
It is not good to keep what be has sfused until the next meal, for liis bod must be fresh.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 7 (Supplement)
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