Date of Award
5-1966
Degree Type
Report
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences
Committee Chair(s)
Ethelwyn B. Wilcox
Committee
Ethelwyn B. Wilcox
Committee
Margaret B. Merkeley
Committee
Ronald Peterson
Committee
Jay Skidmore
Abstract
One day at the Intermountain Indian School, when a package of government surplus dry milk seemed to defy opening, a senior Navajo student offered her assistance anx easily opened the many boxes of milk. Upon inquiry, she said that she had opened many a box, especially in the springtime. She went on to say that most of their dry milk was used in the spring to feed baby lambs.
Later this same student told how her baby sister had died during the winter from something. The sister just seemed to get sick and then died. Could her death have been the result of an inadequate diet?
Interest in the diets of the Navajo students and their families was thus started. It has resulted in this educational study on how non-fat dry milk might be used and made acceptable to the Navajo. Thus, it would improve the eating habits and nutrition of these people.
Recommended Citation
Larson, June C., "An Educational Study to Determine the Nutritional Value and Acceptability of Dry Milk Among the Navajo" (1966). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 823.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/823
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