There are right places and wrong places for fat, as well as for other
things in this world. When alcohol puts fat into the muscles, that is
fat badly made, and in the wrong place.

The good fat made for the parts of the body which need it, comes from
fat-making foods.

In cold weather, we need more fatty food than we do in summer, just as
in cold countries people need such food all the time.

The Esquimaux, who live in the lands of snow and ice, catch a great many
walrus and seal, and eat a great deal of fat meat. You would not be well
unless you ate some fat or butter or oil.

WHAT WILL MAKE FAT?

Sugar will make fat, and so will starch, cream, rice, butter, and fat
meat. As milk will make muscle and fat and bones, it is the best kind of
food. Here, again, it is the earth that sends us our food. Fat meat
comes from animals well fed on grain and grass; sugar, from sugar-cane,
maple-trees, or beets; oil, from olive-trees; butter, from cream; and
starch, from potatoes, and from corn, rice, and other grains.

Green apples and other unripe fruits are not yet ready to be eaten. The
starch which we take for food has to be changed into sugar, before it
can mix with the blood and help feed the body. As the sun ripens fruit,
it changes its starch to sugar. You can tell this by the difference in
the taste of ripe and unripe apples.

CANDY.

Most children like candy so well, that they are in danger of eating more
sugar than is good for them. You would starve if fed only on sugar.

We would not need to be quite so much afraid of a little candy if it
were not for the poison with which it is often colored.

Even what is called pure, white candy is sometimes not really such.
There is a simple way by which you can find this out for yourselves.

If you put a spoonful of sugar into a tumbler of water, it will all
dissolve and disappear. Put a piece of white candy into a tumbler of
water; and, if it is made of pure sugar only, it will dissolve and
disappear.

If it is not, you will find at the bottom of the tumbler some white
earth. This is not good food for anybody. Candy-makers often put it
into candy in place of sugar, because it is cheaper than sugar.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

1. Why do we need food?

2. How do people get water to drink?

3. Why is it not safe to drink water that has been
standing in lead pipes?

4. Why is the water of a well that is near a drain