Skimmed Milk for Boneless Babies.

Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 64

Skimmed Milk for Boneless Babies.

A great many of our foods ar= overestimated in -value, while some are underestimated.

A perfect food should supply all the utmands of Jhe body: (1) Heit for waimnij the body and producing mechanical energy, and (2) material for lenewing womf tit tissues.

Some foods contain more li*»at -producing and less tissue-renew mg m.itennl.s thai) (tl.t-rs.- The potato, for example, i.s an excellent heat-pr< ducing food, but is de-nci-ent in the nutrient most necessary for vital pnrpose«. The egg,- on the other hand, is rich in albumen, or proteid nutrient — the tis«ue-renewing material. cither food alone will supply all the demands of the body, but jointly they are tvp.ible of doing so.

Cream is generally considered the most important part of milk, while fkimmed milk i« considered ot little account. What is cream' It 1 - pnnei,nl material is butter fat, a valuable neat-producim; food, bur d?ficient in nutrient--. Skimmed milk contains tin ee compounds. Of the two. skimmed milk. Mi. mac as it m:iv seem, will sustain life much longer than cre.im.

If .i healthy child Mere fed entnelv on cre.im it would be M.ivvid for the want of pi. -per bone, mu-de, and tissue-forming food.

— The anc:r-nt = . ne Hip saying rocr. '"knew a thing or two," and one need hardly be snrpn-ed that at a peuod when self indulgence took its grosser forms, and when jrluttonv was the most popular of vice*, thohe kindly safnts who. though "dead on" hrrc-tic-. did so much to encourage true believer* in the paths of virtue should La\e invented fasting as a duty and a penance As a weekly recurring duty, fasting undoubtedly became a hoalth-gu ing ordinance, while it had this great «uneriority over other forms of ppiiauce, that it generally left the penitent in hotter form than it found him And therein lic^ its virtue now. We all eat more than we require, and this daily repra.ted superfluity tends to stodgine=s. In a more primitive state of society meals -were more iirpgular. and the amount of food tallied more with the effort expended in ob taming it. Now wo eat because it is a meal time; too many of"us oat nob by mV, but to repletion ; whi'o probably all of us oat acaiu befoic wo are really hungry. Day after day a little more n taken than is ii«od, and thi= r>'^« c-ithrr disturb* tho ji\er n tease the stomnrh. or, rncuhiting in a h\ peipla-tio T'io< d. lf\id-> to torpor, oi «.omfliiiii'i l- put li\ — out of harm's wav- for the time, but much to the distress of tho patient latrr on — in the form of fat Thu* tt'l HAVAX have ftO OCDOltUtlltj Of fitIILULK A

proper balanoe between intake and output unless we follow the wise maxims of the Church, and fast once a week, not merely abstaining from the more toothsome delicacies, but fasting honestly, even to emptiness and discomfort. Let us remember lhat, speaking now not of invalids but of the health}', there is probably no one who has not stored up in the various corners of his frame sufficient food to keep him going, not comfortably, perhaps, but well, for at least two or three days, and that it is good for us to cultivate the habit of living on our supplies rather than trusting to a hand-to-mouth existence. — Hospital.