The diets of elderly women living alone.

number of children increased, indicating that even if the children were assumed to eat no fish the consumption per adult would itself be reduced in the larger families. I t seems valid to conclude from such figures that children not only do not eat much fish but that their presence in the family actually tends to discourage adult members from doing so. This is incidentally not a class difference, since childless households are not, in general, of higher income status than those with children. The records suggest that fish was replaced by eggs rather than by meat in such households under the supply conditions then prevailing. Adolescents only 28.9 31.3 29.7