Homemade baby food

"File: Food and Nutrition, 8/71/6M, 4/75/6M, 3/77/6M, 3/80/10M""Semi-solid food will be recommended for your baby at about four months of age. Some nutritionists and physicians advise later, at six months."--First paragraph.Ann Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Break-fast

"File: Food and Nutrition, 5/79/8M""Don't have time to eat? Want to lose weight? Breakfast makes you sick? For solutions, some people want to skip the first meal of the day. But these same people are likely to eat a midmorning snack for quick energy with little nutrient contribution, to gorge at other meals, and to have inadequate diets."--First paragraph.Ann A. Hertzler (Nutrition Extension Specialist

Vitamin A in the body

"File: Food and Nutrition, 9/79/8M""Although vitamin A was the first vitamin to be discovered in the early 1900's, little is known about how it actually works in the body. Vitamin A is needed for growth like all nutrients and plays a special role in the growth of bone."--First paragraph.Ann Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Herbs and spices

"File: Food and Nutrition, 2/80/8M""Wars have been fought and countries discovered over treasured spices. Marco Polo's stories of his trip to China in the late 1200s told of the spice trade in these then unknown lands and brought many Europeans in search of spices. In the 15th to 17th centuries the Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Dutch traders competed in the spice trade from the Far East. By the 1800s America was involved in the spice trade. America's first millionaires made their money in the spice trade."--First paragraph.Ann A. Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Iron in the body

"File: Food and Nutrition, 5/72/6M, 5/72/6M, 6/74/6M, 7/77/6M, 8/79/6M""Iron is found in every cell of the body. Iron is part of many enzymes that help make energy. If vitamins and minerals are missing, the energy cycle slows down. Less than one percent of the body's iron is used to help make energy."--First paragraph.Ann Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

The four food groups : food for fitness

Date taken from stamp on front page."Food guides are a simple way to select foods for meals and snacks. The Food For Fitness Guide contains four food groups. The four groups are: milk foods, meat and meat alternates, fruits and vegetables, breads and cereals."--First paragraph.Ann A. Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Storing meat and poultry in the freezer

"File: Food and Nutrition, 6/73/6M, 4/74/10M, 7/79/6M""Keep the home freezer temperature at 0 degrees F (-18 C). At this temperature foods will keep their quality. At warmer temperatures, the color and texture of food changes. Keep a thermometer in the freezer to check the temperature. The 0 degrees F (-18 C) should be the temperature in the warmest part of the freezer. In order words, the temperature in the area near the door is probably going to change more than other parts because warm air enters when the door is opened. This is essentially true with an upright freezer. If this area is kept cold, then other areas will also be cold enough. See Home Economics Guides 4456 "Freezers - Selection" and 4457 "Freezers - Use and Care."--First paragraph.Ann A. Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Serving sizes

"File: Food and Nutrition, 1/78/8M""Glasses, dishes, bowls, servings, spoonfuls, pieces, and portions are food size descriptions which had many meanings. They may have meaning to a specific family but they may be interpreted in different ways by others. A spoonful could represent a measuring spoon, a dessert or fruit spoon, or one of many possible vegetable serving spoons. Similarly, a bowlful could be a dessert dish, a soup dish, or a vegetable dish. Even these come in many different sizes."--First paragraph.Ann A. Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Vitamin C in the body

"File: Food and Nutrition, 9/72/6M, 1/78/5M""Vitamin C works with protein in special cells to build collagen. Collagen is used as a foundation building material for many tissues in the body."--First paragraph.Ann Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist

Infants : feeding is more than nutrition

"File: Human Relations, 9/80/5M""Right now, probably the most important thing on your mind is getting your baby off to a good start. You're convinced your baby is the most wonderful one ever born and you may be right. Your baby is a unique individual. There has never been anyone just your baby before and there will never be another after. How can you foster that uniqueness and help your baby develop the highest potential? How do you give a baby a really good start in life?"--First paragraph.Marilyn Coleman (Department Chairperson, Child and Family Development), Ann Hertzler (Food and Nutrition Specialist