A nutrition survey of pre-school children, 1967-68 : report / by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy.

Great Britain. Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy

Date:: 1975

Credit: A nutrition survey of pre-school children, 1967-68 : report / by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Write down EVERYTHING your child has to eat or drink (NOT ONLY the food and drink taken at main meals). Include any tonics, vitamin preparations, or medicines that your child may take. Begin a NEW double page for each day. If necessary, more than one double page can be used for one day’s record. Write in the day of the week and the date at the top of each page. Write in, in COLUMN 1, the time at which the meal, snack or item of food or drink was eaten or drunk. Write descriptions of the food or drink in COLUMN 2 and enter their weights in COLUMNS 3 and 4, using a new line for each item of food or drink. Fill in every day, in the space provided at the bottom of the right hand page, the amount of milk you bought that day and the time your child went to bed at night. LIKE THIS NOT LIKE THIS Cod fried in batter NOT Fish Lamb chop, lean and fat NOT Lamb Boiled cabbage NOT Vegetables Tinned rice pudding NOT Rice pudding Smarties NOT Sweets Stewed apple NOT Apple Fried tomato NOT Tomato Wholemeal brown bread NOT Bread LIKE THIS NOT LIKE THIS Bread Margarine \ NOT Sandwich Cheese |] Coffee powder Water Milk | NOT Cup of coffee Sugar 106 All the food and drink must be weighed on the scales we have left you when it is served. The big numbers on the scale are ounces and the little numbers between them are one-sixth ounces. First write in the big numbers in COLUMN 3 and then write in the small number in COLUMN 4. If the item weighs less than one ounce, write in ““O” in COLUMN 3. Some items (e.g. an apple, a biscuit, a slice of bread) can be weighed directly on the scale. Write things like this in as follows:—$