Vegetables in the Diets of Preschool Children

A classified bibliography on psychodietetics.

“…That raw vegetables are preferred to cooked ones by children and that a marked desire for food seems to develop gradually are conclusions reached, on the basis of an investigation, by McLaughlin, Tarwater, Lowenberg, and Koch (454). Food dislikes acquired in childhood are thought by Rice (464) to have an influence upon metabolic disorders of middle life.…”

A Long Term Experiment with Rats on a Human Dietary

“…The work of McCulloch (1929-30) and the striking report of Orr and Gilks (1931) on two African tribes suggest that, physiologically and psychologically, human beings are more or less a function of the food they eat. Nearer home, dietary surveys and experiments with the feeding of milk to children suggest that the diet of the industrial population may be deficient in several respects (Corry Mann, 1926;Orr, 1928;Leighton and Clark, 1929;Clark, 1929;Orr and Clark, 1930;McLaughlin et al, 1931;Rosenberg, 1931;Turbott and Rolland, 1932;Davidson et al, 1933;McGonigle, 1933aMcGonigle, , 1933b.…”