Page 34 Advertisement 1

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 34

ISSUED BY THE NEW ZEALAND DEPT: 0F HEALTH Check up 0n Your Meals Good food is essential for good health. Here are some suggestions for the three basic meals of the day__they include the foods You need every day to keep You fit and well 4 Breakfast is important: It prevents that mid-morning hunger and the bun and cake eating that does the figure no good. A good breakfast includes cereal (the ones that need cooking are the best) with milk; or fruit in summer ; cooked dish whenever possible. Toast or bread; marmalade, butter, etc: If you can t have 4 cooked breakfast choose milk or a milky beverage in preference to tea: Lunch Mid-afternoon fatigue can be due to 9 poor lunch: For more energy-_less fatigue-~choose this kind of lunch: sandwiches or rolls with meat or egg or cheese or peanut butter, and salad, or tomato or fruit, milk or milky drink-~and-~if you must include them, the cakes and buns only as an extra. With fish and chips or meat pie have some fruit or vegetables and a glass of milk: Dinner This should provide at least a third of the day'$ food needs; SO include meat or fish; potato Or kumara, vege- table (use green vegetable, cauliflower Or swede fre- quently) ; pudding milk puddings and fruit often. Include daily Some meat Or fish ; cheese frequently some raw fruit at least one serving of vegetable and potato Or kumara ; bread U butter whole cereal ; 0 pint of milk (more for children) 6 and iodised salt ; eggs, 3-5 times a week. 13.3