Excerpt from Sugar, Saliva, TartarIn order to be well and strong a child must have foods that contain all the things the body needs. Some of the most important things which the body needs are starch, fats, sugar, lime, iron and a substance called /protein. This does not mean that you have to eat starch or iron as you are accustomed to see them or think of them. The starch or the iron that you can handle could not be used by your body. But there are foods which contain these substances in just the right form for the body to digest-and use to help make you well and strong. And so it is with sugar.No doubt you believe that if your body needs sugar you must sprinkle it on your food at the table or have some put in your food when it is cooked. But this is not any more true than that it is necessary for you to put starch or iron in your food. There are foods that contain sugar also in just the right form for the body to use. Besides these, all the starchy foods that you eat are turned into a form of sugar by the body. Fruits, vegetables and milk are some of the foods that contain' sugar, and bread, potatoes and macaroni are some of the many starchy foods that are turned to. Sugar when they are being digested. So you can see that you do not need the extra sugar, or as it is sometimes called, free sugar, that is bought at a store and added to food that already contains sugar. The only reason we have for eating free sugar is because it tastes good. If you were eating free starch, for instance, because it tasted good, and you found out that your body did not need' it and that it was difficult to digest and might even do you.harin, would you be willing to try not to eat it?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.