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That Body of Yours By JAMES W. BARTON, M. D.
Underweight Children.
Many parents, as they look at their youngster and notice that he or she is thin or skinny as compared with other children, quite naturally begin to be anxious about it. If, however, underweight should be a family characteristic they dismiss the matter from their minds, feeling that the youngster will be all right when he gets little older. Now what about underweight or undernourished children? Underweight may be due to some little infection in the system or it may be due to undernourishment. It has been learned that any little Infection of teeth or tonsils, adenoids, sinus or other trouble. can be the cause of underweight due to the wearing processes of these allments on the system. In cases where there is no infection it is usually due to undernourIshment. This doesn't mean that the youngster doesn't get as much food as other youngsters, but the kind and amount that he gets isn't sufficient for his particular body. Where groups of school children, some normal, and some underweight, were placed under the same conditions as to food, sleep and exercise, and watched for weeks and even months it was found that "it was possible to bring about a gain of weight in every child. It is to be remembered that the children in whom this could be done were such as had failed to gain in weight under the method pursued in the school and home. How was the weight increased? By milk? No. Milk is wonderful food and was fed to these youngsters regularly because it contains so much lime. Lime is the source of the food supply for building up bone and teeth, and some lime should be in every cell in the body. Each child therefore received a good supply of milk daily But milk was not the standby in increasing the weight and strength of these underweight children. Meat and eggs, foods rich in protein enabled the child to play more and actually increase in weight. The experiment showed that in the growing child, especially if he is underweight, It is almost impossible for him to eat too much of meat and eggs. Remember, underweight is not a disease but underweight makes children less resistant to infections. Don't be afraid to give your growing youngster, especially if underweight, plenty of meat, eggs and milk.
[Copyright 1931.]
BANK RECEIVER NAMED.
CAMERON, Mo., Feb. 22.-(Special)- B. Russell of Cameron has been officially appointed as receiver for the Cameron Trust Company, which closed here about two weeks ago. R. A. Shelby,'s representative of the state finance commission has been in charge.
