SECRETS, OF GOOD HEALTH.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 15, 5 September 1929, Page 11

SECRETS , OF GOOD HEALTH.

Nervous exhaustion, or neurasthenia, is a very common condition in civilised communities. :.

The neurasthenic .is unstable, unreliable, laekiig in self-control, lazy or energetic by its and starts, too easily depressed or excitable.

Another ■ typ.e is always- tired, lacking' in energy, discontented, irritable; he worries over trifles.and is no good to himself or to others.' '"■"""

The first-mentioned are often mentally brilliant and sometimes possess genius and creative power. Heredity plays an important part. Education is, however a more potent factor. Much nervous instability originates in faulty methods of education and faulty environment in early life. Proper feeding -of the growing child is of the greatest importance to building up a strong, stable nervous system.

A badly nourished child is naughty, peevish, irritable, easily tired, sleeps badly, and will tend to grow up into a nervous individual,

, In adult life the nervous system simi larly requires the right Mud of nourishment. Mineral salt and vitamin c play an important part in building and,, repairing the nerve cells and nerve fibres. The abuse of stimulants and narcotics such as tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco, has a serious effect on the centrol nervous system. They act as cumulative poisons wihen taken in excess —though excess for one person may

not be so for others

The worst kind of nerve poisoning is due to> toxins produced by micro-organ-isms/ or. by abnormal chemical products absorbed from the waste material of the food as it lies in a. sluggish bowaL Constipation induces all kinds >of nervous ■'disorder. ' ' ■

So-called lt biliousness," with its weli-knowri.-depression,' sense of fatigue and good-for-nothingness, is due to poisons from the tmwel whie>h • our bodies have failed to deal with.

Fbei, or" centres of -dnf ection, in the teeth, tonsils, or bowel are responsible for much -nervous disorder. Even actual insanity ma,y be caused by, and may often be cured by the removal of, such a source of chronic infection. -

: 3?inally, proper hours of sleep, rest, and relaxation, both mental and bodily, a,Te necessary if we are to preserve our nerVoTis energy. To learn to x^st is a lesson greatly needed in t&ese days of haste, noise and excitement..

Long-winded Lecturer: If I have talked too, long it's because I didn't have my watch with, me and I, find no clock in this hail. ■ Voice from -the audience:. Look behind yon. —there's a calendar!