GOOD HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 2

GOOD HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS

IF YOU ABE UNDEBWEIGHT. (By H. C. Aylcn.) The woman with thin arms, thin legs, a thin body and a thin face is as much to be pitied as her sister of too-abund-ant flesh! Why are you so thin? There must be a reason which should be discovered and dealt "with at once. A doctor should be asked to diagnose the cause of excessive thinness. It may be indigestion* wrong feeding, worry, or overwork, and he who decides this must outline any special treatment. This article will deal merely with general means of putting on a ‘little weight. Usually the thin girl is one who worries from morning until night over every happening. She uses her energy in this way, and then, being of a restless, nervous disposition, she overdraws her health account, by working early and late, giving herself no time for the rest and relaxation she needs. Do not let yourself worry. When you feel inclined to fret, get absorbed ‘in some in-

teresting hobby, or read a book so exciting that you forget yourself and the thing that threatened to bother you.

Diet Helps. Diet of the right kind will help the thin woman immensely, but she must give herself time to eat slowly and to have proper meals. Things which will help to put on flesh are: Cereals eaten with a little fresh cream; milk—malted if ordinary milk proves indigestible; honey; baked potatoes; all vegetable salads, without vinegar but with olive oil and lemon juice as a dressing; new laid eggs, lightly boiled and sparingly used. As important as food arc fresh aif, sunshine and sleep. Deep breathing will be found very useful and so will relaxing exercises to relieve nervous tension. Exercises. While deep breathing will improve the chest and bust development, the following is an excellent exercise for developing hips: Stand upright, logs together, hands to the sides. Bring the right knee upwards, then downwards, with a circular motion, the toe just touching the floor in the downward movement. Repeat with the left leg, doing the exercise ten times.