My folks would run me out of the house after a bowl of Cheerios at 8 A.M. I had a bologna and american cheese on white bread sandwich along with some chips and red Kool Aid for lunch. Got kicked back outside. We would ride our bikes or play baseball and sweat bullets till we could get to the hose for a drink and cooling off. This would go till 6 P.M at which point I ate supper, pork steak, mashed taters and canned corn or green beans along with more white bread and butter and as much D milk as I could drink. I could watch some TV or go back out and play till the street lights came on, at which point I had better be headed to the tub to get the taters out of my ears. Then it was off to bed crying to watch Carson on the TV.
I believe it was the water from the hose that kept me so healthy. I almost never drink out of the hose anymore and I'm getting older weaker and more arthritic every day.