HEALTH NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

HEALTH NOTES.

RULES FOR AVOIDING CONSTIPATION.

I. Drink a large tumbler of water on getting up. o. Go through a few exercises, especially those that comp-ess the aMomon and liver, such as bending and stoop-

3. Take brown bread and porridge for breakfast.

4. East very slowlv, and see that the teeth at the hack of ybur mouth (the grinders'! are in good condition.

5. Avohl strong tea as poison. fl. Avoid muffins, crumpets, stodgy cakes, new bread, nnd rich p-strv. 7. Tile more fresh air and out-door exercise vou get the better. 8. Drink a large tumbler of hot water at night. 9. Trv and do without drugs. 10. Mothers, p’ease train your children properly; it is cire and commonsense they need, not bucketsful of ! rimstone and treacle. LOSING YOUR HAIR. Do not be unnecessarily alarmed when you find your hair coming out; it is meant to come out; everybody’s hair comes out A fu’l-grown hair is ensile seen on the brush, but you do r.ot notice the new hair growing out of the scalp and only about a quarter of an inch long. It does not matter if yon cut down the trees of a fox st. so long as von do not cut them down too fa?t, and pl-nt a new tree for every fallen one. When a hair is discovered, on the b ush, it doos not follow that the root from which it grew is destroyed. Far from it : at the moment you are contemplating the hair with a ;orrowfu’ countenance, the new hair is just beginning to sprout, and is '•■cggmg you to be of good cheer.

IS YOUR FOOD TOO “NOURISHING?”

‘ Ten per cent, of the food which the F.odv requ’rer. should cons st of proteids. such as the albumen of egg. th" gluten of wheat, the legumin of~ haricot beans, feto..” says “Good Health.” ’‘The truth is that reople who indulge in flesh food to any great extent are almost certain to take more nitrogenous food than they require. Practically •speaking lean beef consists of proteid only, aside from the h-rg" amount of water that it contains. Ordinary bread, and especially wholemeal or brown bread, contains about the nroper proportion of nitrogen-uts and non-nitro-genoiis material B'th e"gs and ny’lk are rich in proteid, nnd the same is true of haricots, lentils and dried peas. All nuts, except Italian chestnuts, con? tain a large percentage cf proteid. On the other hand, fruits, and most vegetables as well, contain but a trifling amount of nitrogen. Rice is a distinctly farinaceous food, and so are potatoes.”