A primer to teach children in India how to eat and live well, which is actually very pertinent to children everywhere today. The coloured fold out frontispiece depicts a food star showing the component parts of food needed by the body for its proper nourishment, growth, repair, health and work. Robert McCarrison (1878-1960) was a Northern Ireland physician and nutritionist in the Indian Medical Service. He was a pioneer in nutrition research and the effects of dietary deficiencies, working also on the newly discovered vitamins. He demonstrated how many common diseases increasingly prevalent in industrial societies were caused by diets high in processed food.