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Title: Nutrition and growth in children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Emerson, William R. P. (William Robie Patten), b. 1869
Subjects: Children Growth
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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re preventingfurther fatigue, while the rest and sleep restorethe waste of past activity. The rest periodsalso increase the childs power of food assimi-lation. Fatigue interferes with absorption, andthe child will benefit in both appetite and diges-tion if he has a short rest before eating. The proper position for the rest periods isshown in Figure 16. The clothing should beloosened, the windows open, and the childshould face away from the light. He shouldnot be allowed to take either books or toysto bed with him. Children should be taughtto rest even when not sleeping, although theregularity of the rest periods when faithfullyfollowed seldom fails to induce sleep. Therest period should be for at least half an hour,but 20 minutes of complete rest are worth morethan an hour spent tossing about in discomfort.The ability to sleep for short periods at anytime is a habit that makes for health. In extreme cases, absolute rest in bed for sev-eral days may be the means of causing the first 84
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a 2 — E t r— -J OS X = v: - O c « *^=: a ^ ai — O C/3 -3 OVERFATIGUE gain. In other instances, it will be better forthe child to have breakfast in bed at his regularhour, and then continue to rest until 10 or 11oclock. He should not be allowed to sleepthrough his usual breakfast time, and thus losethe value of regular meals. During the early years of childhood discre-tion should be used in story telling at bedtime.At the age of four or five the imagination isespecially active, and exciting stories often af-fect the child painfully, causing fear of the dark,of unusual sounds, and of strangers. The childshould go to bed happy and contented, underconditions that assure warmth and comfort, andwith the distinct idea of going to sleep at once. As light is a powerful sensory stimulus, thereshould be no light in the sleeping room. It hasbeen demonstrated that the depth of sleep ismuch greater during the dark nights of winterthan during the lighter nights of summer.Children should not b

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