Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — The Boy and His Stomach Capable of Great Things. [ARTICLE]

The Boy and His Stomach Capable of Great Things.

Following is one of a series of articles written by Dr. H. E. Barnard, pure food and drug commissioner for Indiana. Acording to Dr. Barnard, a boy is a very easy animal to feed, but is apt to overfeed. He says: “The boy’s stomach, like his pocket, seems to have been designed as a receptacle for everything the owner, through whim or longinig, may put into it. The boy’s mother asserts he" eats more than his father. The boy stoutly argues that his parents never give him a chance to show how much he can eat. “The boy and his stomach are capable of great things but they cannot be tried too severely. The growing child needs large quantities of food and he is so active he can assimilate and digest? food that would often try the stomach of an adult. But there is a limit to 4 a boy’s capacitv and the food should be carefully regulated by his parents." “Green apples are supposed to be the ban of a boy’s existence. As a matter of fact green apples do not harm the boy because they are green, but because the boy eats more than he can possibly hold. That is the reason why candy--hurts thildren. It is not the qugnty but the' quantity of icandy thahAurts children. Cheap candies are not unwholesome. In fact they are about as good as if they came in beribboned- packages at a 'dollar a pound. A nickle will get half a pound of cheap candy. Eight ounces of candy is almost half a pouid of sugar, twice as much as a child’s stomach can begin to care for properly. “When the boy’s stomach is odt of Sorts, empty it thoroughly and then give it a rest. Don’t worry about bad food; the probability is that the boy is suffering from overfeeding and not food poison.”