(The data presented at the hearings are as follows:) Comparison of cost of 100 calories of cereals and cereal products. Proper selection of food makes for economy and health. A good rule is to spend as much for milk, fruit, and vegetables as for meat, fish, and eggs. Cheese, which costs slightly more per 1,000 calories than butter, contains valuable inexpensive animal protein as well. Mr. MOORE. Would you advocate, in your lectures to the poor people, whom we expect and hope to aid, that they buy these manufactured articles as against the raw material? Miss CAUBLE. I have prepared for use here a comparison of the relative values of meats, fish, and cereals, and I have in preparation vegetables and fruits, comparison of the values as purchased as any housewife would purchase them in the market. I have them arranged with the number of calories, comparing the price per calorie in each. A calorie is a heat unit. The housewife has a different idea of marketing if she knows she is buying for a physiological need. We teach her to take and divide her money so that she knows how much she wants to use for fat, for instance, and we have been working hard to try to put into simple, homely language the result of research, and say to the woman, "You need a varied diet; you need certain varied kinds of food in your diet." Most of the people think that meat makes a meal. It does not make a meal. It is only the tissue-building part. "Take one-third of your money, or, if you have a dollar to spend, take 30 cents and buy your meat, fish, butter, and eggs; take the other two-thirds and buy your milk, your fats, cereals, fruit, and vegetables," and if they do that they can not go amiss. I will give you an answer to the bacon question. Bacon gives us 25.97 calories of food per pound, and according to the analysis of our figures at from 25 to 32 cents a pound, which Proper selection of food makes for economy and health. A good rule is to spend as much for milk, fruit, and vegetables as for meat, fish, and eggs. Cheese, which costs slightly more per 1,000 calories than butter, contains valuable inexpensive animal protein as well. Mr. MOORE. Would you advocate, in your lectures to the poor people, whom we expect and hope to aid, that they buy these manufactured articles as against the raw material? Miss CAUBLE. I have prepared for use here a comparison of the relative values of meats, fish, and cereals, and I have in preparation vegetables and fruits, comparison of the values as purchased as any housewife would purchase them in the market. I have them arranged with the number of calories, comparing the price per calorie in each. A calorie is a heat unit. The housewife has a different idea of marketing if she knows she is buying for a physiological need. We teach her to take and divide her money so that she knows how much she wants to use for fat, for instance, and we have been working hard to try to put into simple, homely language the result of research, and say to the woman, "You need a varied diet; you need certain varied kinds of food in your diet." Most of the people think that meat makes a meal. It does not make a meal. It is only the tissue-building part. "Take one-third of your money, or, if you have a dollar to spend, take 30 cents and buy your meat, fish, butter, and eggs; take the other two-thirds and buy your milk, your fats, cereals, fruit, and vegetables," and if they do that they can not go amiss. I will give you an answer to the bacon question. Bacon gives us 25.97 calories of food per pound, and according to the analysis of our figures at from 25 to 32 cents a pound, which |