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DIET AFTER THE FIRST YEAR

Milk is the principal article of diet during the second year. It
should be given with regularity at distinct intervals of four meals a
day. It may be given from the nursing bottle, unless the child has
acquired the bottle habit and refuses to eat anything else but the
food from his bottle, in which case it should be given from a cup.
Beginning with the sixth month, aside from his milk, be it breast
milk or bottle milk, he is to be given orange juice once each day as
well as the broth from spinach and other vegetables. This is necessary
to give the child certain salts which are exceedingly essential to the
bottle baby.

At the close of the year when he is taking whole milk he should be
given arrowroot cracker, strained apple sauce, prune pulp, fig pulp,
mashed ripe banana (mashed with a knife), a baked potato with sauce or
gravy (avoiding condiments), and a coddled egg. Fruit juices may be
added to the diet, such as grape, pineapple, peach, and pear juice.
Later in the second year he may be given stale bread and butter, and
for desserts he may have cup custard, slightly sweetened junket, and
such fruit desserts as baked apple and baked pear.

We do not think it is necessary to give children much meat or meat
juices. We appreciate that there is a diversity of opinion upon this
subject, but we do not hesitate to say that in the families where meat
is little used, the children seem to grow up in the normal manner with
sound healthy bodies, sometimes having never tasted it. When meat is
used, it should be well cooked to avoid contamination with such
parasites as tapeworm and trichina; it should also be well chewed
before swallowing, as many of the intestinal disturbances of the older
children are due to the swallowing of unmasticated food such as
half-chewed banana, chunks of meat, rinds of fruit, and the skins of
baked potatoes.

Let the children's diet be simply planned, well cooked, thoroughly
masticated, and above all things have regular meal hours, and no
"piecing" between meals; and if the mother begins thus early with her
little fellow, she will be rewarded some later day by hearing him say
to some well-meaning neighbor, who has just given him a delicious
cookie or a bit of candy: "Thank you, I will keep it until meal time."
Children learn one of the greatest lessons of self control in
following the teaching that nothing should pass the lips between meals
but water or a fruit