HAIR AND THE HEALTH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 16 August 1917, Page 4

HAIR AND THE HEALTH.

Do not forget flint the condition of the hair depends to a large extent on the general health. Y hen all known applications have been tried and /ailed, turn your attention to the general system. If you can cure yaur anaemia, you will improve your hair. Submit yourself to a complete examination. The teeth must be seen to, septic- stumps removed, and, if necessary, new grinders must lie put in. The food will 4 never be assimilated so as to form rich blood if the teeth do not perform their duty properly. Then perhaps you eat too fast, even though your teeth are in a clean, healthy slate. Perhaps you go to bed too late and wake up sleepy. You may not drink enough water. \'ou may stay indoors too much. A common fault is to drinlc too much tea. Constipation must be cured by diet and habits rather than by medicines. The whole body, each and every part, is connected: the health of one part, such as (he scalp and .hair, depends on the health of all the other parts. In typhoid fever, which is a disease of the abdomen, the hair of the scalp generally tails out. The treatment is to leave the scalp alone and nurse the patient hack to health, when (he hair will grow of its own aeeord. AVOID OVKli’-KATIiVG, To rise from the table able to eat a little more is a proverbially good rule for everyone. There is nothing more unwise than Forcing down a few mouthfuls because they happen (o remain on one’s plate after hunger is salislied, and because they may be “wasted” it aft. It is (ho most serious waste to overtax the i stomach with even half an ounce more than it can take care of. Avoid foods and drinks that plainly disagree with the system. Vigorous outdoor workers should beware of heavy, indigestible suppers. Suppers should always consist of light, easily-digested foods —being very often so soon followed by sleep, and the stomach being as ymch entitled as the head to profound rest. The moral lirmness to take such food and no other for this last meal of the day can he easily acquired, and the reward is souml sleep and a -capital appetite for breakfast. Never sleep in polluted air. The air in all bedrooms without an open window, and not otherwise ventilated, rapidly becomes impure when they are slept in. Indeed, the air in a closed bedroom is often most unpleasant without anyone in it. No one, not the most delicate, should sleep'without a portiton of the window down. To practice (his winter and spanner tends to a sound chest. The bed should be out of a draught, and the sleeper should be more warmly coveretl Ilian be need he in a sealed-up room. To allow llie fresh air to gel to the lungs does not imply that (be body need be colder.