You and your spouse are just able to meet the recommended caloric needs of each family member. There are two adults and five children in your family, and each person requires 2,000 caloriesper day(or 14,000 calories total).One child is sick and having difficulty thriving,so yourdoctor recommends increasing his intake to 3,000 calories per day. How shouldyour family go about this?

a. Cut the caloric intake of one adult to provide for the increased needs of the sick child.

b. Provide the 3,000 calories to the sick child and divide the remaining 11,000 calories equally among the two adults and four other children.

c. Maintain the recommendation of 2,000 calories for each adult, provide 3,000 calories to the sick child, and divide the remainder among the other four children (7,000 calories/4). The four other children will go to bed hungry each night.

d. Do nothing. Provide the recommended requirement to each family member, allowing the adults to remain productive providers and the children not to go to bed hungry. One child may get even more sick.