The Health Bulletin, 1915, Vol. 30 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

North Carolina; State Board Of Health

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330909186 ISBN 13: 9781330909188

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1915, Vol. 30

All outdoors is ours for the taking - the health of sunshine and fresh air and that good feeling that comes extra.

Usually what is food for flics is poison for man. Where they feed you should not feed. Where they swarm they find something to eat. If it is in the meat shop, the cafes or restaurants, the grocery stores or your own kitchen, you should not cat there.

If for some reason you did not have your spring cleaning in March, get It done the first days of April. Don't stop with cleaning the house. Clean the yards, back and front, and sec that there's no winter trash left, or places where flies or mosquitoes may broed during summer.

Now is the time to fight the fly. Don't wait till next month or the next when he arrives with a host ten thousand strong, to try then to put him to death. Strike now while he is one. Clean up. Destroy his breeding place. Leave him nothing to live on. The fight now against individuals is easy compared to the ten thousand new recruits next month.

More and more it is being found through investigation that backward school children, delinquents and truants and even juvenile criminals have some physical defect as the cause of their being where they are. Many of the defects have been found to be bad eye sight, bad teeth, adenoids, enlarged tonsils or glands and those diseases that are easily remedied If discovered and treated in time.

If you have that "tired, good for nothing" feeling, don't think that all you need is to Invest a dollar In sonic tonic or blood purifier. That is your first inclination, no doubt, but take the second thought. Change your living habits - perhaps you are eating too much, meat especially, or not getting enough exercise, or not drinking enough water, or not getting eight hours regular sleep - and in less lime than you could have taken the medicine you will be feeling better and will have saved your dollar and self respect.

Eat vegetables. Now is the time you should do away with meats and heavy winter diets and eat vegetables. Not mainly because you have them, and lest they should waste, should you eat them, but because you need them, your body demands them. Bulky, laxative foods as spinach, mustard, green peas, string beans, spring turnips, lettuce, radishes, etc., are necessary in the early spring diet. If you do not have them in your own garden and they are not to be found in the market, live on canned vegetables a while longer. If at this season you eat mainly vegetables and fruit, drink plenty of water and Like dally exercise in the sunshine and open air. you will not be likely to have an attack of spring fever.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330909186
• ISBN 13: 9781330909188
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 284