WORRY AND FOOD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 37, 14 October 1946, Page 4

WORRY AND FOOD

PSYCHOLOGISTS and doctors emphasise the intimate relation that exists in the body-mind. Worry', fear, unpleasant mental attitudes, jealousy, and all those feelings we may term “negative,” react first of all on the digestive system and so proceed to attack the very foundations of health. All these feelings tend to change the bodily secretions to such an extent that digestion is either arrested or seriously impaired. . . . Meals are less than useless when taken in the wrong frame of mind. Unless we can manage to ■ control our emotions and concentrate our minds on pleasant matters it is just as well to eat very little food. In the same way it is foolish to permit or initiate scenes with children at mealtimes. —Elizabeth Cross in the Psychologist, London.

Coats, Capes and Gumboots When it was discovered by the Hospital Board yesterday that the award made it compulsory for the Board to supply suitable waterproof capes, coats and gumboots for the porters at the institution during wet weather, it was decided to agree to the purchase of the necessary garments and to make the StoremanPorter responsible-for "their safe keeping and state of repair. Broken Glass The large quantity of broken glass on almost every road in the Borough is at present causing concern to motorists and cyclists. In some cases the fragments, many of which are quite large, are spread right across the road, making it impossible to avoid them. Every day, fresh evidence of the carelessness of certain people is apparent by a new patch of either brown or clear glass lying scattered on the bitumen, in other cases whole bottles have been left in the path of passing cers, to be invariably run over by unsuspecting motorists.