health for a lifetime is laid before birth and during lactation, and the vitamins and minerals are necessary for a good start toward the great blessing of sound teeth.
Think of the special food, nerve poise, and quiet necessary to lactation. The child who gets a six to nine months’ supply of breast milk perfectly adapted to his needs, from a healthy, happy mother, has a start on the Road to Wellville that gives him incalculable odds over the bottle-fed baby in the race of life. We know, as a matter of statistics, that the breast-fed child wins at least from two to four times as often as the one artificially fed. And the more subtle advantages, following the survivors through a lifetime, are undoubtedly as great.
On Starting
the Day BeforeSlowly, through the food laws that ensure clean milk and pure foods, and through the organized work of the national, state, and city governments for nutrition and health instruction in the schools, we are “getting over” to the future mothers and fathers of the nation how to travel the Road to Wellville! The place to start the procession is with the preceding generation! And to aid in this work is the purpose of this book—and of every Post Health Product.
The appended list, Appendix, page 101, of simple, readable books and booklets, for practical use, covers the articles of this creed on which libraries could be written. Only a few outstanding points are given here on the food phases of this travelogue of health for those who are just starting on the journey of life.
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