HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 7, 12 September 1944, Page 3

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG OF IT (By the Department of Health) ' This is intended chieily for those people, who regard proper dietary principles, as just so much faddism. Tliey arc the people who "can eat anything," and probably do and when thej' get aches and pains Where they least expect .them they wonder why. But there's a tremendous difference between right eating and wrong eating. Here is a striking example of it: In India the Sikh of the Punjab is noted for his manliness and finephysique. He is every inch a man and a great fighter. In the south of India there lives the, Madrassi of delicate features and small and poor physique. He doesn't as. a rule ■ ' '' live very long. The- Sikh drinks milk or uses milk curds something like junket; lie has for bread a pancake-like chappatti of courscly-ground wheat; lie eats lentils and meat; cooks with ghee or clarified butter and has plenty o4' raw J'.ruit and raw ancl cooked vegetables.. The Madrassi on the other hand has very little milk, if any; uses, rice instead of Avheat; eats lentils but no- meat, sometimes a little fish; cooks with oil ancl spices his food very highly; lias bananas and raw and cooked vegetables. Here is the difference between the two diets: I\lilk j butter meat coarse wholemeal. All this bears out the contention that, a man is largely what he eats.. If children are to grow up into healthy, virile adolescents, and adults ' 9 they must get the right food. Eating the right food is not faddism— it's plain common sense—and in this country we are well supplied with the right, kinds of food. NERVOUS FATIGUE (By the Department of Health) Though the Avar is taking a welcome turn for the better - workers in essential industries still have their j,obs to do and their health and well-being to maintain, Pressure production is likely to continue for some time after the war finishes and long hours will probably be necessary, &o proper regard for health conservation will be just as essential. If you plan your life the right Avav. your efficiency should not become, impaired. Physical fatigue—from continued hard muscular exercise—and mental fatigue, most of us knoAV pretty well; but also nervous fatigue - wliich occurs Avlienever there is any great pressure on a worker to get as much done as possible in a given Hi me. , Slight degrees, of nervous, fatigue are harmless and in most jobs today are unavoidable at the end of the day's work. Too much how-

ever leads to accidents illness ill- ■> '» i temper ard inefficiency. To minimise it there needs to be a spirit ol' harmony among workers themselves and with the management. Outside the factory there must be an emotionally satisfactory lite. Leisure hours should be planned to take in some community acclub meetings., movies or some hobby that will enable you to relax pleasantly. And don't overlook the utmost importance of regularity—regularity in j r our daily routine of Avork meals leisure activities and sleep. Nature likes regularity. An inefficient Avar worker is a handicap to himself and the Avar effort.