Studies were made to
determine what foods children ate during the period of delayed growth. It was found that the food of poorer
families of the cities and of those families who lived in the country consisted
mainly of corn and beans. Other
studies showed that neither the corn not the beans had the needed food
value. It was found also that
children, while taking mother’s milk, were seldom given any other foods. When they were no longer taking mother’s
milk, they ate food low in proteins. In
a special study of one-year-olds in a town in