mins ana minerals tnat are diet éssentials. Energy-giving sugar, contain- ing only 18 calories per tea- spoonful, also suffers. unjustly in the first flush of dieting. a child is very young and, with eonstant practice, may continue, even increase, during a lifetime.'their garments just right. When your child at two, three,; Think of the whims of scores five or older, refuses to let one/of these older children which persen minister to his needs and|constantly cause the mother pout and act ugly because the mother doesn't press or mend 8 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdey, December 26, 1961 How To Deal ith A Child Who Indulges In Tantrums Many Shoppers Are Influenced By Old Beliefs About Food Does superstition guide your shopping cart? How many myths and rumors about food influence the pack- ages you take to the checkout? An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Carrots are good for the eyes. Spinach is healthy. White eggs are better than brown. Potatoes are fatten- ing. Milk carries Strontium 90. Only eat oysters' in a month with an "R". Refrozen foods can be poisonous. Onions are good for colds while cucumbers cause pneumonia, And dozens more, mostly poppycock. They guided out mothers and many of us in our food shopping. Some have been proven true. Others are completely false. Yet food retailers are - ware that shoppers' carts are some- times guided by superstition despite the staggering knowl- edge of nutrition of modern homemakers. "We have seen sales of some foods drop on the basis of a particularly disastrous medical or scientific theory," said V. T. Barber, director of merchandis- ing of Oshawa Wholesale Ltd., IGA supply depot for southern Ontario. '"'And I believe some shoppers are still influenced by those old sayings about food." APPLE MYTH modern health rules though an American. doctor conducting ~ four-year apple-a-day test died of a heart attack before it was completed, But fresh fruit daily is effective in safeguarding health. Same goes for carrots which, with their high Vitamin C eontent, are beneficial to health generally. But spinach and _ potatoes have had their ups and downs. Spinach spiralled to fame on the basis of Popeye, the comic strip character who consumed it by the ton. The whole conti- nent turned to spinach as a cure for all its ills; for two decades, until science took an- other look at the leafy little plant and decided it could drain valuable calcium from the body. North American children heaved a sigh of relief. Unfor- tunately, they are missing out on an excellent source of vita- mins and iron. BLAME, POTATOES When the slim figure became the female ideal, potatoes felt the squeeze. Their high starch content was considered the root of all excess avoirdupois and they disappeared from some dinner tables after being the heart of the meal -- sometimes all three meals -- for genera- tions. Actually, an average pota- Milk is under fire just now as a carrier of Strontium 90. According to some scientists, milk is no more susceptible to Strontium 90 than many other foods. It was simply unfortu- been nate enough to have chosen for scientific testing. The old oyster adage outlaws June, Why? The those months and needs protection, and during spawning season, but they oyster eating in May, July and August. oyster spawns during oysters lack flavor, present no dangers. WHITE SHELLS VS BROWN Big headache to food retail- ers is the housewife who opens) every egg carton on the shelf until she finds the color that suits her. Eggs differ in color because they are laid by differ- ent breeds of hens. There is no difference in nutritional value, keeping qualities or flavor. Although foods that are not poisonous unless properly refrigerated, ing to dieticians. As for cause and cure of doctors point out that no food can pro- vide immunity to a disease or colds and pneumonia, have been thawed and refrozen are likely to lose color, flavor, tex- ture and nutritional value, they im- accord- By G, CLEVELAND MYERS From California comes this letter: "My little niece, Joan, six, pouts every time something goes wrong, contrary to her way of thinking. "She recently had dinner with me and because she wasn't sit- ting next to me, she refused to eat a bite. She was jealous be- cause her sister had a seat by me. stand in the confusing battle of food fads and facts? Her greatest assurance lies in the continuing research of both scientists and food processors, Mr. Barber said. "Food manufacturers are put- ting to' work all the reasearch facilities at their disposal to pro- duce nutritional foods and to discover at the same time the truth or falsity of these myths and claims. "Food retailers are handling food in sanitary, controlled con- ditions that ensure quality right to the hands of the consumer. "No doubt the coming months and years will see other myths exploded and new scares trig- gered. But with the aid of scien- tific research, the shopper will be guided in sorting out fact from fancy and serve her fam- "We hadn't cleared the table when she wanted her dinner. Her mother gave her a bowl of dry cereal which the child asked or. SHOULD GO HUNGRY "My idea is that she should have been allowed to go hungry, since the plate first served to her was refused. This pattern has been repeated consistently. I feel that if she had to go hun- gry because of her own choos- ing, she might be broken of this obnoxious trait." I agree with this aunt. Of course she hardly could inter- fere or give advice. She had to "grin and bear it." It's easy to guess that this whimsical, pouting child had be- haved the same way scores or hundreds of times before, and that she usually won her way by pouting or throwing a tan- trum. Only recently, I saw a boy, about five years: old, when of- fered a bun, throw it on the table and say he didn't want that one. The father took the bun and gave the lad another. But the youngster still pouted and ate very little breakfast. As I looked on, I wished the father had made sure this boy did not receive another bun or even the one he threw on the refuse to do it. suddenly decides he doesn' want the toast with butter and jam. DON'T TAKE HIM little tyrant. Think of all the teen-agers even children nine to 12, who. demands that you do so instead, If he asks you for butter and jam on his toast and you give it to him, hold him to his deci- sion. Don't let him make you substitute buttered toast if he If he declines your offer to take him shopping, don't let him make you take him along just when you are all ready to go. Don't let him grow up to be a not caring for the meal pro- vided for the family. will de- mand some other foods, or who extra work and worry. These whims may. cause chil- dren to be hard to get along with in the family and elsewhere. Some pouting, whimsical hus- bands and wives began to get that way in their very early years. (My bulletins, The Very Sel- fish Child and Tantrums: Pre- vention, and Correction, may be had by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to me in care of this newspaper.) PARENTS' QUESTIONS Q. Why do you advise against giving a child sweets between ,| meals? .| A, Sweets between meals spoil the child's appetite for proper food at regular meals and also damage his teeth. t * Special. for hosts who aren't sure whether their guests like lager table. eause the disease. F Such whims may appear when Where does the The apple-a-day adage is anjto contains fewer than 100 calo- jily food that is both nutritional oldie that seems reasonable by!ries, yet provides valuable vita- consumeriand attractive." Celebrating her second | and grandchildren of Mr. and ; birthday today is Maureen | Mrs. Kenneth G. O'Malley, Evelyn, seen with her brother, | Oshawa, and Mr. and Mrs, Brian James who was. four | Joseph Jones, Dalhousie, N.B. years.old in November. Brian | Great-grandparents' are Mr. land Maureen are the children | and Mrs. Thomas Chiasson, of Mr. and Mrs, James | also of Dalhousie, N.B. O'Malley, Cedarvalley drive, --Ireland Studio CHILD GUIDANCE Contemplates The Adoption Of Husband's Illigetimate Child Dear Mary Haworth: My hus-|and is at present living with a band and I grew up together./ married man. We have been married almost} Is it, perhaps, because their) three years and have two won- dependent status affords her a} derful children. My husband| subsistence income from public was involved with another girl) welfare sources? Or does she before we married and by herjhave a real feeling of love for he has a son, three years old.|them, poorly implemented to be This girl has since had two| Sure? : 'more children, each by a dif-| I wonder, too, what is the mo- ferent father. Now she is living| tivation of your desire to rear with a married man. Although|the boy, when your husband she doesn't want the children Seems neutral to the proposi-) and farms them out to other|tion? The explanation may be} people, she won't give them for| that you'd like to have charge adoption. She merely wants con-|f the lad to put an end to the; stant baby sitters. jbond of sorts that links your| see ».| husband to the child's mother in She has given my husband's!;,, present tangle. son to a relative, a good person} who loves the boy and would|/ FIGHT FOR CUSTODY give him a good home. But I| If the boy were legally trans- feel that a real parent, wh0|planted to your keeping, his pa-| loves and wants him, could pro-|ternity clarified and his guard-| vide the best care. I also be-lianship vested in his father and| lieve it is my husband's duty to| you, then his mother could pre-| rear the boy, as the mother is/sumably be shut out of the pic-| unfit and doesn't want him. But/ture. Is this how you propose) I know she would fight this,/to make a clean break with! simply because of her selfish-| your husband's past and there-| ness. by rescue the family name from ADOPTION POSSIBLE? |perennial involvement with the |other woman's flagrant miscon- The boy loves me very much) quct? If so, there is a vein of and I love him as I do my Own) common sense in it. children. We could give him a; However, there is no guaran-| good Christian home and educa-|tee that taking the boy from his tion. However, I am a job/mother (if you achieve it) will holder and I wonder if thaticiose the door between them. would create a legal complica-\She may. pursue the relation- tion if my husband and I filed/ship with purely malicious in-| for his custody I have a won-|tent and perhaps the child may) derful woman who cares for OUur/continue to hunger for her, | two children during the day. even though devotedly cared for When the b6y is a little older/by you. he will learn that my husband! Even so, I believe you'd be is his father. as everyone in\justified in making a serious, town knows it. But now, when|persistent drive to obtain his we visit, he calls my husband|custody. But be sure of your by his first name. Won't this|}ground. Discuss your purpose) mixed history have a damaging|beforehand with a family rela- effect on him some day? Whatitions specialist who can ap- do you think? And what legal| praise the entire situation, espe- steps could be taken? 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