small piece of meat may be taken, together with green vegetables,
rice, potatoes, simple salads, and a simple dessert, milk or coffee
with milk as a beverage.

~Selection of Food.~--The following foods may be used to formulate the
diet sheet: Wheat, oat, or corn cereals, rice, tapioca, made into
simple puddings or served as breakfast foods; fruits, oranges, prunes,
apples, raisins, dates, figs, or grapefruit, stewed or raw. The fruit
juices may be used instead of the whole fruit if the latter disagrees.
Vegetables: peas (green or dried), beans (string beans or dried
beans), spinach, greens (turnip, mustard, or beet), cabbage, onions,
celery, lettuce, served as vegetables or in soups, potatoes. Meat:
lightly broiled beefsteak or stewed or boiled meat or chicken served
not more than once a day or three times a week. Eggs, prepared in
different ways. Cheese dishes. Breakfast bacon or ham in moderate
quantities, butter, olive oil (or other salad oils) in moderation,
whole wheat, graham or bran bread, Boston brown bread and crackers,
milk, cocoa, chocolate, buttermilk, malted milk, koumiss, or zoolak;
coffee and tea in moderation.

The diet, as has already been stated, may be supplemented by nutrient
beverages or milk gruels.

DIET IN LACTATION

The diet of the nursing mother, as has been explained in a previous
chapter, must not only cover her own requirements but must likewise be
adequate to furnish the extra requirements imposed by the nursing
infant.

~Food Requirements of Nursing Infant.~--When the baby is a month old
he should be growing rapidly, and his food requirements at this period
and until he is about three months old will be approximately fifty
calories per pound of body weight in the twenty-four hours. As he
grows older his requirements grow gradually less in proportion to his
weight. This is because the rate of growth is less, so that for the
next three months the requirements are from 43 to 40 calories per
pound of body weight per day, and 35 calories per pound during the
last three months, or by the end of the first year of life.

It has been estimated, as before stated, that the average infant will
take 2-1/3 to 2-1/2 ounces of mother's milk per day[63] to each pound
of body weight and that every ounce of mother's milk will yield on an
average 20 calories. Hence a month-old baby weighing ten pounds will
be taking about 23 ounces a day, yielding 460 calories. Scientists
have estimated that for ev