Introductory Physiology and Hygiene
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217935395
Paperback|9780217935395
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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: CHAPTER HI WHAT TO EAT If you should sit down to a table every day for a week and have nothing given you but oatmeal, you would think you were badly treated. You might eat enough of it to keep you from starving, but you would soon become so tired of it that you would probably lose all desire for food. The desire for food is called the appetite. To keep a healthy appetite, we must have not only plenty of foods for building the body, for giving it power and for keeping it warm, but we must have a variety of each kind of food. Foods that are Good for Us. ? We should have for every meal some food to furnish building material and some to supply power and heat. Children should eat bread and butter, milk, a little meat, and cereals. Milk builds and repairs our bodies and also gives them power and warmth. Cereals, as you already know, are also a good building- food. The cream of the milk, the butter that iseaten on the bread, and the meat will supply us with fat. What does fat do for our bodies? We should also eat some sugar to give us power and keep us warm. Candies and cakes will supply the needed sweet. We should not eat very much cake, because it fills up the stomach and gives us only a little building-food. Candy is a perfectly proper food if it is eaten at mealtime. It is very bad for the stomach if a person munches candy all the time. Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. ? Have you ever thought why we have several different kinds of food at a single meal? If we should eat only building-foods, our appetite would soon grow tired of them and demand other kinds of food also ? that is, foods for power and warmth. So, for breakfast, we may have oatmeal and milk, eggs, or a small piece of meat, and fruit. For dinner we have something more substantial, like soup, meat and potatoe...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217935395 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217935397 |
| Weight | 0.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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