GOLDEN HEALTH RULES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 85, 20 October 1928, Page 14

GOLDEN HEALTH RULES

1. .Reduce your meat ration to an al>solute minimum, and if: possible cut it out'of the dirt altogether. Fish.is .1 good and sufficient substitute. 2. Never fail to include in your daily diet wholemeal bread or rye bread, some citrus fruit (oranges, lemons, grapefruit) and other fruits, green vegetables, potatoes, dairy-products (iDeluding milk). These supply all; ilia vitamins in combination and the invaluable roughage . which ensures proper intestinal action. 3. Aim at having a- regular motion of the bowels after each substantial ln^al. This should be quite normal on such a diet as the above, and it' all over-relined manufactured foods like white bread arc strictly avoided. i. Drink at least six tumblers of water a day—two on rising, two on retiring, and others -between meals. A moderate amount of alcohol in (he shape of beer or light wine, with meals is desirable. 5. Work and sleep an far as possible' in well-aired rooms or in the ojK'ii air. 6. Take every opportunity of allowing the fresh air and sunshine free access to your skin for regular periods. 7. Wear only light underclothing, and put on heavy outer clothing in case of colder weather. All clothing, however, should be sufficiently- porous to enable free action of the skin to take place. 8. Equally important to the functioning of the skin is the daily bath. Hot baths should be taken only in the evening;. , -.•■■ : ■ 9. lirush the teeth at least night and morning, particularly just" before retiring. 10. Exercise, night and morning for t-i'ii minutes, particularly iv a way which will improve (he action of the abdominal muscles and promote easy evacuation. These simple rules should be enough, it! faithfully observed, to promote such conditions of health as will make the individual's resistance to diseases of civilisation most effective.