Battle Creek Sanitarium Cafeteria

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• A Few Foods Served to the Nutrition Class

  This handwritten document lists a selection of foods served to children in the Nutrition Class of the 1926 Sunshine Playground program, as well as a list of topics of discussion at the program's weekly "Healthyful Living" health talks. The menu contains some of Battle Creek Sanitarium's proprietary food products, including Protose meat substitute, Zo cereal, Ferrin iron supplement, and Fig Bran cereal. Sunshine playgrounds were summer nutrition programs for children held at Battle Creek Sanitarium that aimed to increase sun exposure as a preventative for tuberculosis. Children were medically monitored and examined, fed a curated menu of health foods, and given ample time for outside play.