DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL

“BLUE”? (Copyright , 1927.) A FIT of “blues” is as much a physical ailment as a ilt of any other kind When the world begins to get “blue —violet—indigo,” there is something the matter with your body—not your eyesight or the world. A case of the “blues” is as much an intoxication as a drunken spree. The body is drunk with the poisons in the system. Efforts of the will to be cheerful are only partly successful until the poisons have been eliminated. When you are blue DON’T'. — 1. Make important decisions until the spell is passed. 2. “Speak your mind” to your friends. But DO: 1. Watch your posture. Stand up straight. Sit up in your chair. Don’t slouch. Bad posture gives rise to congestion of the kidneys and excitement of the adrenal glands brings on an excess of their secretion in the blood. 2. Eliminate. Get up a good perspiration. Be sure that bowels are in good condition. Drink large quantities of water. Clean out the system as much as possible. 3. Exercise. A sedentary life allowing an undue accumulation oi waste tissues is fallow ground for the blues. Any form of exercisework in ft gymnasium, a tramp, working in the garden—that is vigorous enough to induce a good “sweat” is beneficial. Exercise that brings the large muscles of the legs and trunk into active use and sets the lungs into full play is of the greatest vlue. 4. Beware of loss of, sleep, the use of drugs aud the too free use of condiments and highly seasoned foods. They are often responsible for depression of the spirits by causing over-action of the adrenal glands. “The best mental remedy for the ‘blues,’ ” says Dr. J. H. Kellogg, « whom I am indebted for these suggestions, “i 3 to turn the face resolutely toward better things and wait for the poison wave to pass, just as one holds his breath in the surf until the foaming crest has passed over, at the same time endeavouring to remove the causes.”