BUTTER FOR CHILDREN.

Shannon News, 8 January 1926, Page 3

BUTTER FOR CHILDREN.

Some mothers .are often quite horrified at the quantity of butter their children will eat if allowed to help ■themselves.. This, says a doctor, in am exchange, is a very mistaken attitude. Butter is prdhahly. the • most digestible of all fate. It contains vitamin es a -quantity of some principle (entirely absent from mutton and beef fats, olive oil, etc.), which is very powerful in prooriiOitdflig the flow of the digestive juices. For young'and old the free use 0butter'is to.be recommended. Bui'.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 diet of most children are insufficiency of fat and insufficiency of They need abundance of lean meat, fish, eggs, skim-miilk, beans, and peas to supply the latter. But if they do not get enough fat these body-builders axe used up to produce heat amd 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 v m'dtiher would force them on her children., In butter we have a better and more natural fat than either, and the sensible mother wail let her children eat as much oi it as they like.