THE VALUE OF SLEEP

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 19

THE VALUE OF SLEEP

You don't need to diet to-be healthy; just give a thought to what, you are eating, says an English writer.' • Try a, piece of .wholemeal.br^ad-'for breakfast instead of toast, and spread-it well with butter; drink your tea, certainly, but do have a liberal allowance of milk in it. Have a piece-of • fish for your luncheon, if you doa'twanV moat, and drink two good glasses of water.' It only needs a little thought but it is, jnst that want of thought which, will' maJce you anaemic. It is very easy to be careless about the quality of your sleep. Quantity' is ■ not the only important factor, although^ there is no

doubt that that is also important.: When you fall asleep you should be sleeping soundly, but not heavily, and you should certainly not wake at three and four o'clock as so many people do. It is useless to try to get refreshing sleep in a room whore tho air is not fresh and circulating; at the same time, it i nearly as bad to sleep ii. a room which is too cold. To be cold at, night is definitely dangerous, and may lead to serious after-effects. It also makes you look very pale and grey about the skin.