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Bulletin No. 257 - Factors Promoting Positive Health In School Children, Almeda Perry Brown

UAES Bulletins

It is necessary only to observe groups of rural children to become convinced that too many of them are deprived of their rightful heritage of positive health.

Why children playing together, working together, under conditions which apparently vary but little, should exhibit such wide variation in health conditions, is a question of vital importance to all concerned with the care of children.

It was with the hope of finding some of the causes behind these variations that the present study was initiated. That the problem is complex and intricate was fully realized, and no hope was entertained that its solution …

Inexpensive Salads From Home Produced Products, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

Salads of fruits and vegetables are a valuable addition to the dietary because they increase the use of "protective foods." "'The protective foods' are four types-milk, fruit, vegetables and eggs which enrich the dietary with calcium and vitamins A, C, and G. "Milk is a good source of calcium and vitamins A, C, and G and an outstanding source of vitamins A and G. "Prominence of these foods in the individual dietary and in the general food supply protects directly against dangers of nutritional deficiencies and helps also to afford the body a better measure of ability to protect itself …

Safeguards To Health, Mary A. Covert

SDSU Extension Circulars

Cooperation in a campaign to keep the family well will result in a saving of dollars and will add much to the happiness and general efficiency of the home. Many factors making for positive health might be considered if space in the circular permitted. Those selected for discussion here are: Adequate diet, correct breathing habits and other factors of personal hygiene, proper heating, lighting and ventilation, home sanitation, the avoidance of contagious diseases and accidents.

Your School Lunch, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

Boys and girls of fine physique are always admired. They are well, alert and eager to do their work and play. You want to be like them. Eating the right kind of food every day will do more than anything else to help attain that desire. You can make a start by studying these foods at school at lunch time. Not all boys and girls make a fine appearance. Reports from 1600 homes in South Dakota indicate that 20 per cent of the boys and girls in these homes have had repair work done on their teeth, that 21 per …

Suggestions For Health Classes, Belva L. Swalwell

Science Bulletin

The classes in high school conducted primarily for the purpose of imparting health knowledge which will lead to action are confronted with the problem of securing suitable material for supplementing the textbook work.

Time Savers In Feeding The Family, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Feeding the family, including the preparation of food, cleaning away and washing of dishes, consumes about 47 percent of the time spent on homemaking activities by the average South Dakota homemaker. This is nearly as much time as is spent on all other tasks and does not in7 elude time spent in planning, purchasing, butchering or other work which has been included under miscellaneous. The average working day is nine hours and twenty-seven minutes. Seven hours and twenty-five minutes are spent on homemaking activities, and one hour and forty-two minutes on outside work. The time spent on homemaking activities is …

Tooth Building Foods, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

What the family members are eating is largely a matter of habit formation and training. This fact was clearly brought out at 24 county food program determination meetings and the summary of the state homemakers survey. The homemakers survey included 1617 returned health questionnaires from 37 counties and 1242 returned food questionaires' from 24 counties.

Adequate And Economical Meals, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

At the county project determination meetings which were held during the early fall months in twenty-eight counties in the state the women discussed the summary of 1200 food questionnaires as well as the survey summary secured through the cooperation of doctors, dentists and grocery men. The survey showed that 15 percent of the children in the families reporting were fussy about their food, 16 percent of the mothers had difficulty in getting the children to drink milk, 15 percent of the children did not eat raw tomatoes and 20 percent did not eat cooked tomatoes. Twenty three percent did not …

Good Food Habits For The Family, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

How to get every member of the family to eat what is placed on the table," is the major food problem faced by the South Dakota Homemaker's according to the recent homemakers survey and the discussions at the county program determination meetings. The survey and discussions indicate that the Home Extension club members, having studied food and nutrition, know fairly well what foods constitute a balanced dietary. In spite of this knowledge however, a large percent are not eating an adequate diet.

The School Lunch, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

At the time of the presentation of the survey facts at the county project meetings, the mothers said that they wanted to know how to plan the school lunch so that it would meet the daily dietary needs of the growing child and how to get the child to eat the lunch. It is to meet these requests that this circular is written. The training in right food habits is presented in a separate circular. It may be of interest in this connection to examine some of the survey findings.

Ec996 Health Brings Happiness

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 996 provides information on how health brings happiness.

The Marvels And Oddities Of Sunlight, William J. Fielding

Select Environment and Natural History Publications

No abstract provided.

Milk, The Growth Food For Health, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Milk is the only product provided by nature to serve solely as food. It adequately serves as a foundation for an efficient diet, when used regularly and liberally, both for children and adults. In Extension Circular 275, "Food Needs for Health," it was brought out that an adequate diet supplied the materials required to take care of the three food needs by providing materials for growth and repair (proteins, calcium, phosphorous, iron, other minerals, water and vitamins), materials for heat and energy (fat, starches, sugar), and materials for regulating body processes (vitamins, alkaline salts, laxative materials including roughage, and water). …

Refreshing Beverages And Nourishing Drinks, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

For optimum health, six or more glasses of water must be supplied the human body every day. Two-thirds of the adult body is water. All homemakers have observed the large amount of water present in a potato. In proportion to their weight, muscular tissues contain as much water as the potato. Even one-third of the bone by weight is water.

Food Needs For Health, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Observe the individuals about you. You will notice that physically the best differs from the ordinary and that they vary in degree of fitness from the physically perfect individual (in minority) to the person decidedly handicapped by physical defects. Parents should know the main characteristics of a well-developed child and the factors influencing good development. A physically efficient adult is the product of a well-developed child and youth. Similar facts having a bearing on agricultural problems have been recognized. There was little progress in the improvement of the quality in livestock and corn until those interested had in mind an …

The Health Value Of Whole Grains (Quick Breads And Cookies), Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

The grains are more widely distributed than any other one food. Thirty-five to forty-five per cent of the diet of Americans and Europeans is made of grain products. In this country grains vie with potatoes for a place on the menu. About 35 per cent of the diet of the Chinese and Japanese is rice. The southern negro's main food is cornmeal. The grains are truly the "staff of life." The importance of the grains as a food staple was emphasized at the time of the World War. The supply of grains, especially wheat, was carefully guarded. Its control and …

Regulating And Coordinating Health Factors (Salads), Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

Until recent years fruits and vegetables were looked upon as expensive foods that did not contribute very much to the welfare of the human race. Even the early research workers considered them of poor dietary value. Meat, potatoes, bread, fat and sugar were the main standbys. But the diets prepared for and tested on experimental animals did not bring the results in health, length of life and reproduction of the species that they were expected to. It was then that research workers began looking elsewhere for the reason and found that substances contained in fruits and vegetables were invaluable from, …

Ec992 Signs Of Health In Childhood

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 992 provides information on signs of health in childhood. It covers the topics of optimal health, good posture, good and poor bone growth, and points in which optimal children may differ.

Winter Vegetable Cookery, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Eat and serve more vegetables. Eat and serve them every day because they are rich in mineral matter, which the body must have to build and repair bones, teeth and other t issues and to keep it in good running order. They also contain vitamins necessary for health and normal growth and development of the body. Because of their bulk, vegetables also help to prevent constipation. A variety of vegetables is available to the South Dakota homemakers during the winter if they will but look ahead for them. The garden should be planned with the idea of storing and canning …

South Dakota Cereals, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Cereals the world over are “the staff of life,” because they are economical, nutritious, and have a mild flavor that combines well with other foods. The production of cereals of grains plays a large part in the agricultural program of South Dakota. The cereals raised are of high quality, as are the cereal products manufactured within the state. Every homemaker should study her market and give preference to South Dakota products when all other factors are equal.

Use More Milk, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Nature has provided milk for a growth food. It is so efficient that, with no other nourishment than milk, an infant will double or even treble its weight in nine months. Childhood is the period of growth and development. The very best of building materials should be provided in order that strong, healthy bodies may result. Milk contains, in an ideal form, the elements necessary for growth and repair.

Three Meals A Day, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Three meals a day, to the homemaker means to plan, prepare and wash the dishes for over a thousand meals during the year. A woman asked not so long ago, “Since meal planning and preparation occupies such a conspicuous part of the homemaker’s time, on the average on third, cannot meals be planned on a wholesale scale being they are counted by wholesale figures?” The best system for meal planning like for anything else, is the simplest and the easiest way to do it.

Wholesome And Attractive Desserts, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

In this circular, created by the Agriculture Extension Service at South Dakota State College, the information provided focuses on the nutrition and attractiveness of desserts through the guidance of the Home Economics Department during the year of 1924.

Adequate Diet For The School Child, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

Every mother is anxious that her children grow into men and women who will be a credit to the home and community from which they come. Probably one of the biggest factors that will help to bring this about is the food that the mother prepares every day and which she trains the children to eat. She does get tired of ever lastingly preparing food and often wonders if she is feeding the right thing for health and growth.

Diet - The Underweight Child, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

In this circular, created by the Agriculture Extension Service at South Dakota State College, the information provided focuses on the possible malnutrition of a child, how to recognize malnutrition, what causes it, and results that occur from malnutrition. This information is provided through the guidance of the Home Economics Department.

The Savers In Cookery, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

This circular has been prepared for the Housewife who believes in the Gospel of Rest and Recreation as well as in the Gospel of Work.

Food Club Manual : Third Year, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

Every girl is interested in being as good looking as possible. The foundation of real beauty is Health. It is the girl with rosy cheeks, lustrous hair, sparkling eyes, a clear complexion, a good posture, and full of life that is attractive. These marks of beauty are within the reach of every girl if she will take the necessary effort to get into the Health Game and play it consistently. Health is the necessary foundation for beauty that is to last. While you are girls is the time to develop the good complexion and figure you love to see at …

Food Club Manual : Second Year, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

In this circular, created by the Agriculture Extension Service at South Dakota State College, the information provided focuses on preparation of canned vegetables and fruits, how to increase the use of milk in an individual’s diet, and dining room service and etiquette through the guidance of the Home Economics Department.

Christmas Specials In Cookery, Mary A. Dolve

SDSU Extension Circulars

Christmas comes but once a year and when it comes it brings all sorts of specials from the kitchen. Specials not only for the table and children at home, but also for the gifts to be sent away to both young and old.

Custards Plain And Fancy, Susan Z. Wilder

SDSU Extension Circulars

Custards are one of the plain patterns in cookery that every home make should use because they are easily and quickly prepared, they are palatable used as a dessert or main dish at a meal and they are one of the many ways of introducing more milk into the diet. The questions of pre-preparation are taken up later in the bulletin. The need of introducing more milk into the diet is the important question.