HEALTH HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 15

HEALTH HINTS.

'HILDRKN AND SWKETS. All children like sweets and eat them when they can. This, is because their system .-silks for sugar to keep up the .supply ~i energy that the child is - i continuously drawing upon. Simar Inmust have, and the only restrictions used should have reguid to the quality "I the sweets and the time at which the'v are eaten. The child who is allowed to suck .sweets at all hours of the day is likely to have no very good appetite for plain wholesome foci. If on the other hand a few sweets be given regular! v aftpr a meal no harm will !«'■ done. Katen in cx.-pxs swoeu lurn sour in the stomach and set up fermentation, but a moderate amount will simply supply a little extra nourishment in a very a«recablc form. Thp sweets must be wholesome-, and in this particular some of the least expensive arc the best. Old-fash-ioned toffee, barley sugar, and the variously named drops ilavoured with fruit essences are all sale enough and contain little beyond sugar.

STOMACH COMPLAINTS.

Dr. W. Soltan l-'enwick. in the course of a recent lei-ture, strongly warned jie.ople to refrain from taking "drugs for indigestion. Almost every so-called tonic acted, he said, as tin' irritant to an irritated stomach, and consequently all acid medicines, as well as those which contained iron, quinine. arsenic, and si ry<-hnia. invariably did harm in acid dyspepsia. Alkalis which naturalised or killed the ,-xccss of acid afforded muesli relief, and it was for that reason that carbonate of soda was such a household remedy for indigestion. Kxposure to cold and dump wa.s one of the commonest causes of catarrh of the stomach, and the presput absurd craze, of submit ting young and delicate children to all kiiuls of inclement weather in the scan tiesl. of clothing was certain to produce an undue susceptibility to digostivc. disorders, which Would seriously affect, their health iv years lo come. EIT-'KCT ON" MIND AND BODY. "The exaltation ~! victory makes wounded soldiers oblivious of pain, and the depTPssiun »f defeat increases mortality. If a cat is frigLtemcd for 10 lo Io niinut's by a barking dog, a sample of its blood will make strips of certain muscles relax when they are immprsed in il. though such a portion of blood had no effect on them before the emotional disturbance. Frightened rabbits show- almost complete prostration, and their brain cells, in contrast with those of normal animals, take a deeper stain from certain chemicals, and their size and shape are strikingly altered." These well vouched statements are made by ii well known scientist, and he adds an interesting experiment. "If an individual is placed in circuit with a delicate galvanometer ami made to laugh, i" feel sad. or is suddenly surprised, thpre will be irKryemenls in the instrument indicating the passage of small electric currents. Such interesting svientitie ' facts as these, and many others, make it clearly evident that, emotions are something more than mere states ol 1 mind."