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Chronicle (Levin), 28 May 1946, Page 8

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VABYING THE DIET. (By llio Depnrtment of Health). There is a gcneral idoa in our commuuity t.har the harder the work one does the more meat and breud and butter oue necds. It is perfectly true that the niorc inuseular work tve do the more energy foods we require — more fat, more ln'ead, more cereal. Alore protein there must be too, to keep the diet balanced, and to provide the extra fat needed. In practice our lieavy workers liave been too Jiniited in supplying their extra needs to more meat and more bread. Thev couhl widen the -range of •their extra energy supplies with improvemeut in their health — bacon, oatmeal, more potatoes instead of so much bread, and more milk. . ) Let us look at the diet required by' an ofltice worker and tliat needed by a' busli-feller, "and see how the extra Energy needs of tlie Iatter should 1)6 lifet. The white collar man should have one pint of milk daily, the bush workers j 1] piuts; one ounce of cheese a day' for the desk man, two ounces for heavy i manual work; of meat 4ozs i.s plenty1 for tlie former, but the latter requires! oi er twice as much and will need to eke i out his ration with rabbit, or peas, , beans, and Jentilrf served with his meat; j botli require an egg a day and if thevi can'l get this should use peas and! btans in the diet 011 eggless days; the ofiice w orker requires aliout 7 ozs of j potato, the bush-worker at least twrice j this, witli a good sized helping of car- j rot as vyell; green vegetables, 3 to 4j ozs for the. one, becomes double that for the other; cach needs about the same aiuount of fruit — preferably one citrus type and one other eac.h day. The bush worker needs the little extra butter allowed him in his ration, and he needs more fat, which he'll get from his extra meat, or from suet puddings, or baron. Botli types of worker ought to have part of their bread wholemeal; 8oz.s of bread for the office man becomes up to 20 ozs in the bush-feller. The latter needs 2 ozs of oatmeal against 1 for the office man.