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Beef 9 lbs.
Pork 188 lbs.
Veal 6 lbs. .
Fowl 10 lbs.
Rabbits 21 lbs.
Fish 59 lbs.
Fruit 88 lbs.
Meat Pies 20
NUTRITION.
In recent years interest in the subject of nutrition has been
steadily growing, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that of
the factors responsible for health, food plays the most important
part. Hitherto attention has been directed to the improvement
of environmental conditions and to the prevention of the ravages
of infectious disease but research and clinical observations now
show more and more clearly that a deficient or faulty diet may
produce effects of greater consequence to the individual than
either of these two factors.
Children may, and frequently do, grow up healthily in spite
of bad environment. They may avoid illness although exposed to
infection: they may survive, undamaged, an attack of disease,
but they cannot survive unscathed prolonged deprivation or
deficiency of certain essentials for normal nutrition.
Adults deprived of these dietetic essentials suffer from chronic
ill health and are readily susceptible to infectious disease. Total
deprivation of any of them results in serious illness.
These conditions can be prevented and in many cases cured
by the inclusion in the diet of adequate quantities of certain
" protective foods," foods containing the essential vitamins and
mineral salts. Among the most important protective foods are
the dairy products, especially milk. Eggs, fat, fish, green vegetables
and fresh fruit are also rich in vitamins and minerals.
Another essential constituent of the diet is animal protein,
which has the function of building new tissues for the growing
child and of repairing tissue wastage in the adult.