Ideas About Moderation
According to health authorities, the chief causes of the diseases resulting in death in adult life and middle age can be traced to the following faulty living habits:— (a) Over-eating, especially of highly seasoned foods. (b) Badly balanced diet; too much meat, insufficient fruit and vegetables. (c) Insufficient nourishment. (d) Too little healthy exercise and recreation. {e) Too heavy exercise or too severe work; prolonged exhausting manual labour or athletic excess causing strain. (f) Excessive and prolonged mental strain; emotional excitement and worry. (The manual labourer needs some physical play and mental work. The brain worker needs some physical work and mental play). (g) Insufficient sleep and rest. (h) Abuse of alcohol.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 11
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