GOOD HEALTH!

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 4

GOOD HEALTH!

BY A NURSE-MASSEUSE Take your health in hand immediately on rising! Jump out of bed when you wake, instead of allowing yourself to doze on indefinitely. If you are not accustomed to a cold or tepid bath, take a big, rough, woollen cloth, wring it out of cold water, have a quick rubdown ■with it, and follow this by vigorous application of a perfectly dry bath tow*el until your skin glows. Dress quickly and, if the morning is fine, take a quick walk w r ith body upright and shoulders thrown back, and breathe deeply. It is wonderful what correct breathing will do for you—mentally as well as physically. It. will not only help your circulation, but it will aid your memory. It will not only expand your lungs, but will enable you to gain mastery over all your powers. Not only will it help keep your body slim, but it will help you to gain mental poise and keep your nerves normally quiet. After a brisk "walk, and before breakfast, go through a few' simple exercises to keep you fit and slender. One of these is the waist exercise, which is performed thus: Stand with the feet close together. Put the palms of the hands upon the hips, thumbs forward, fingers down, and grip the abdomen. Now bend—not from the hips, but down from the belt line—as far as you can, describing regular circles, as large as possible, with the shoulders. Follow this with a few arm exercises, reaching exercises, knee-bend-ing and stretching exercises, until you get that harmonious development of all the muscles of the body which will keep it from becoming distorted, as it is bound to do if the muscles are allow r ed to get weak and flabby from disuse.