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Good dietary habits are extremely Important to children. In planning meals, mothers should go beyond the simple and obvious requirement of providing enough food to sustain growth and energy requirements.
Equally Important is the need to encourage maintenance of normal weight, and to establish dietary habits which tend to lower cholesterol levels in the bloodstream. According to informed medical opinion, lower cholesterol levels retard the onset of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, a disorder which helps to set the stage for heart attack and stroke.
Anything the homemaker can do to get children started in the proper dietary habits can be of great advantage in the a (kilt years when they become increasingly vulnerable to heart attack. But the degree of vulnerability can be changed by minimizing the risk factors. The sooner good dietary habits are begun, the better the youngster's chances of avoiding or delaying a heart attack in his or her adult years.
What mothers should remember in planning meals are these three simple rules:
1. Replace saturated fats in your diet with polyunsaturated fats as much as possible.
Polyunsaturated fats are largely liquid vegetable oils such as com, cottonseed, soybean and safflower oils. Pish and poultry also contain polyunsaturates. This type of fat tends to lower blood cholesterol.
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