BUTTER FOR CHILDREN

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1926, Page 1

BUTTER FOR CHILDREN

Some mothers arc often quite horrified at tho quantity of butter theii children will cat if allowed to help themselves. This, says a doctor, in an exchange, is a very mistaken attitude. Butter is probably the most digestible of all fats. It contains vitamines and a quantity of some principle (entirely absent from mutton and beef fats, olive oil, etc.), which is very powerful in promoting the flow of the digestive

juices. - For young and old the free use of butter is not not be recommended. But to children it is of the highest value, for it. supplies the heat and energy of which their restless bodies are so much in need. The two great faults in the diet of most children are insufficiency of fat and insufficiency of protein. They need abundance of lean meat, fisli, eggs, skim-milk, beans, and peas to .supply tho latter. But if they do not get enough fat these body-builders are used up to produce heat and energy. Give them enough fat for the latter purposes, and the meat etc., will go to fulfil their proper function. If a doctor prescribed olive oil or cod-liver oil a mother would force them on her children. In butter we have a better and more natural fat than either, and the sensible mother will let her children eat as much of it as they like.