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MILK FOR GROWING CHILDREN
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When the child is big enough to thrive on undiluted,
unmodified cow's milk, it should not only be allowed,
but urged, to continue on a diet in which this, the
best of all foods, is the most essential part. An excellent
form in which to feed milk to the growing child is
junket. Eaten slowly with a spoon as a pudding, it is
exposed to the action of digestion much better than
milk swallowed by the glassful in a hurry and even if it
is cold there is no danger of defective rennet action in
the stomach because such action has already taken
place.
Doctors still disagree as to the desirability of pasteurizing milk for young children (see "Pasteurization," Chapter I), some holding that the digestibility is af-
