Excerpt from Food for Growing Children The food materials are of great variety but analysis shows that all of them are but varying combinations of a few simple foods just as all of our English words are made from twenty six letters. These basic foods are carbo-hydrates, including starch and sugar, proteins, fats and mineral salts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.