The tonsils are not organs without functions to perform, yet from their frequent removal one would gather that they are inherently a menace. Adenoids are not unnatural tissues, but are natural tissues gone abnormal through wrong conditions within the body. Yet adenoids and enlarged tonsils have been extirpated by the millions - in many cases because mothers have not been informed how to nourish and care for their children in such a way as to avoid these abnormal conditions.
Why do we have affections of the tonsils, and why do we have enlarged adenoids? The answer is simple: health-destroying practices are followed by parents and taught to their children. There are many factors of living that unfavorably influence the adenoid tissues and tonsils, and in some instances every possible factor of a detrimental nature has been at work to disturb these tissues.
It is not only the fuel foods, however, that help to cause these conditions. Too much meat or other protein and the rich foods such as gravies, pies, cakes, and desserts and so on, have similar effects. All of these foods may be taken without great detriment if they are taken in amounts that are within the body's needs, although it would be better if some of these never entered into the diet of our children.
Prominent additional causes are; failure of parents to see that their children exercise, secure enough outdoor play and enough ventilation indoors, that their elimination is adequate, their skin kept free from accumulations and toned sufficiently for normal responses to the body's needs, and to obtain adequate sleep and, during the first few years of life adequate day-time rest.
The diet in such cases should be much simpler than a child usually receives. The usual breakfast provides starches and proteins and perhaps twice as many calories as are required. When there are adenoids or affected tonsils good breakfast is dry toast with a little butter, or a dry cereal with a little rich milk, some naturally sweet fruit, and a glass of milk. If a cooked cereal is used it should be taken with a sweet fruit so that it must be masticated.
Why do we have affections of the tonsils, and why do we have enlarged adenoids? The answer is simple: health-destroying practices are followed by parents and taught to their children. There are many factors of living that unfavorably influence the adenoid tissues and tonsils, and in some instances every possible factor of a detrimental nature has been at work to disturb these tissues.
It is not only the fuel foods, however, that help to cause these conditions. Too much meat or other protein and the rich foods such as gravies, pies, cakes, and desserts and so on, have similar effects. All of these foods may be taken without great detriment if they are taken in amounts that are within the body's needs, although it would be better if some of these never entered into the diet of our children.
Prominent additional causes are; failure of parents to see that their children exercise, secure enough outdoor play and enough ventilation indoors, that their elimination is adequate, their skin kept free from accumulations and toned sufficiently for normal responses to the body's needs, and to obtain adequate sleep and, during the first few years of life adequate day-time rest.
The diet in such cases should be much simpler than a child usually receives. The usual breakfast provides starches and proteins and perhaps twice as many calories as are required. When there are adenoids or affected tonsils good breakfast is dry toast with a little butter, or a dry cereal with a little rich milk, some naturally sweet fruit, and a glass of milk. If a cooked cereal is used it should be taken with a sweet fruit so that it must be masticated.
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