HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 85, 26 September 1947, Page 2

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

RELAX—EVERY DAY (By the Department of Health) We cannot avoid activity in earning our daily bread or performing the daily rounds of the household. But we can prevent those duties from creating a continuous condition of tension which will have a bad effect on our health. Exercise, both mental and physical, is good. So is rest beneficial to both mind and body. But too much of either will eventually get our bodies and what we call our “nerves” out of gear. s Whenever you feel tense and wrought up, spell for a moment or so. Relax whenever the job offers the chance to do so. This doesn’t spoil efficiency. It increases it and stops you from getting all on edge at your work. Don’t treat your daily form of exercise as a task, but only as a relaxation. Daily exercises by the book, without keenness, da your general health infinitely less good than some form of exercise that draws you—a walk in the fresh air, for instance, a dance in the evening, a game of golf or tennis at weekends, badminton, football, gardening, what you will. If you like reading, this is one of the best forms of mental and bodily relaxation. Music is another form of relaxation.

It may be that you consider going to the pictures an ideal form of relaxation. -JVlany young New Zealanders find dancing pleasurable. Each day should have a relaxation period as much as the proper amount of sleep is necessary. It will increase your efficiency and help you to see a Wealthy old age.