TEN GOLDEN HEALTH RULES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

TEN GOLDEN HEALTH RULES.

1. Reduce your meat ration io an absoiuto minimum, and if possible 2ut it out of the diet altogether. Pish is a good and sufficient substitute. 2. Never fail to include in your daily diet wholemeal bread or rye bread, some citrus fruii (oranges, lemons, grape-fruit) and other fruits, green vegetables, potatoes, dairy products (including milk). Theso supply all the 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 meal. This bo quite normal on such a diet as tlic- above, and if all over-refined manufactured foods liko white bread are strictly avoided. 4. 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 the shape of beer or light wine, with meals is desirable. -5. Work and sleep as far as possiblo in well-aired rooms or in the open uir. 6. Take every opportunity of allowing tho fresh air and sunshine freo access to your skin for regular periods. 7. Wear only light underclothing, and put on heavier' outer clothing in caso of colder weather. All clothing, however, should be sufliciently porous to enable fro" actiou of the skin to take place. 8. Equally important to the functioning of tho skin is tho daily bath. Hot baths snould be taken only in the evening. 9. Bru-th tho teeth at least night and morning, particularly just befoie ietiring. 10. Exercise night and morning for ten minutes, particularly in a way which will improve tho action of the abdominal muscles and promote easy evacuation. These simple rules should be enough, if faithfully observed, to promote such , conditions ot health as will make the individual's resistance to diseases of civilisation most effective.