INFANT FOODS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 33.

INFANT FOODS.

DR. KATE LINDSAY, speaking of “Artificial Infant Foods,” in Good Health, says:—

“It may sometimes be necessary, in an emergency, to use predigested food for a short time, but nature never intended the human body to be nourished by foods artificially digested, and no infant can live on them and be properly nourished for any length of time. All the predigested starchy foods are deficient in the fatty elements, and must be used only for a short time or the nutrition will be disturbed, and rickets or some other form of malnutrition result. If dependence is put entirely on any one of the many prepared foods, the same danger will be met. It would be well for the preservation of the lives and health of children, if all mothers comprehended this important fact. Patent foods are all very easily prepared for the baby, and unless the mother or nurse is wise enough to be watchful, and ask the opinion of the infant organism, by means of the scales, or by the manner in which each organ does its work, as to how the nutrition of the baby is maintained, there is danger that its life and health may be endangered, and it be seriously ill before it is discovered that it has been slowly starving to death because its food was deficient in some important food element.”