TAKE A REST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20851, 18 April 1931, Page 7 (Supplement)

TAKE A REST.

BY A DOCTOR. Fresh air and' exercise at the week-end are not everything. Many people who rely mainly on these things for their health overlook another important factor in the preservation of good health. That factor is due recuperation.

Rest, properly taken and in the proper amount, is an essential factor in physical and mental welfare. Often it is a restful rather than an active week-end that the working man or woman really needs. It is no good driving the body to exercises or co-called pleasure when what the nerves and muscles and heart ar<} really crying out for is rest and an opportunity to recover completely from labour-induced fatigue. In this matter, as in every other, there is a wrong way and a right. True rest must be complete, but It must not be too prolonged. Complete rest can only be obtained in bed, and it is here in a limited number of Ixours that the sensible man should seek his week-end rest. Let him carry on activity on the Saturday afternoon, however great the inclination to an armchair snooze.

Then after a light dinner on Saturday night, let him go early to bed, and, with open window but complete darkness, sleep until nature wakes him on Sunday.