Bulletin No. 257 - Factors Promoting Positive Health in School Children

It is necessary only to observe groups of rural children to become convinced that too many of them are deprived of their rightful heritage of positive health. Why children playing together, working together, under conditions which apparently vary but little, should exhibit such wide variation in health conditions, is a question of vital importance to all concerned with the care of children. It was with the hope of finding some of the causes behind these variations that the present study was initiated. That the problem is complex and intricate was fully realized, and no hope was entertained that its solution could be accomplished by the methods and the extent of the present study. Two hopes, however, were entertained: One was that some of the factors which promote the physical well-being of children might be discovered and brought to the attention of parents and others whose business it is to direct the care of children. The other hope was that this modest attempt might be followed by other studies similar in objective, broader in extent, more intensive in nature, and with improved technique. It would be extremely enlightening if such a study, involving the life history of several hundred children, should enlarge in like proportion the findings discussed in this paper

Nutritional Status of some Utah Population Groups

The science of nutrition is the science of life. Though man is still ignorant of the true nature of that elusive force we call life, he has learned by means of the discovered laws of nutrition how to preserve and prolong life as well as how to add to the satisfactions of living. The emergence of the sicence of nutrition from the maze of superstition which for centuries clouded man\u27s thinking is a fascinating story. A story, however, that arouses a feeling of regret that for so long a time man was willing to attribute to supernatural forces all phenomena that were to him not easily explainable. This tendency to superstition together with the effortless effie· iency with which the healthy body functions, obscured for a long time the relationship between ingested food and bodily development and activity. Small wonder, therefore, that Galen and Paracelsus, dimly aware of the body\u27s smooth functioning, were willing to credit their so-called natural spirits, or vital spirits, with the operation of a splendid mechanism that was beyond their understanding. To Vesalius is due in large part, the beginning of a substitution of observation and inquiry for unthinking superstition. The science of nutrition as we know it today is greatly indebted to the fact that Vesalius was able to impress his many capable and influential students with the value of this substitution

Bulletin No. 213 - Food Habits of Utah Farm Families

This report is merely an attempt to set forth the findings of the investigation without making claim to their being conclusive except for the families included in the study. While the study was carried into a relatively large portion of the state, the records are too few in number for any claim to be made that they represent community food conditions. It is believed, however, that the records which form the basis of this report are representative of the food situation in the homes from which they come

Bulletin No. 246 - Food Habits of Rural School Children in Relation to Their Physical Well-Being

A study of school children\u27s diet and of their physical status was made in six rural Utah communities, similar in size, and in social, economic, and physical characteristics