Better Health
E print to-day the first of a series of articles written for The Listener by two senior officers of the Health Department, Dr. Muriel E. Bell and Dr. H. B. Turbott. These articles, which will be brief, popular in style, and generally related to the problems of the times, will continue throughout the winter, and, we hope, through the summer as well. They will be independent of the series of talks broadcast by the Commercial Broadcasting Stations, but will of course not conflict with those. If the subjects happen to overlap, our articles will in fact supplement those talks by presenting the same information from a slightly different angle. But a talk of even ten minutes fills more space in print than we shall be able to spare while the war lasts, and more too than most people would find time to read. On the other hand everyone has time to read five or six hundred words, especially when it is known that they are the words of authority. We are, of course, extremely fortunate to be able to offer such a series by two authorities whose qualifications not only make each complementary to the other, but, taken. together, cover so wide a range of daily health and diet. For it is necessary to say plainly that much of what goes by the name of instruction in health is quackery and superstitious nonsense, which, though it usually does no positive harm, does harm negatively by perpetuating and reinforcing ignorance. Our readers need hardly be told that while the prime purpose of this series is to help them as individuals to better health, the secondary purpose is to explode common fallacies and correct some gross popular errors. Nor will anyone question the need of better health during these critical times. While there is no special season for good health, which is necessary always, bad health is never so costly as it is in times of danger and stress. Apart altogether from winning the war-and this applies especially to mothers of families-we need all the physical resources we can command to endure the daily strain without exhaustion. Total war is a war first of all on the human spirit, and the best reinforcement of the spirit-apart from those spiritual consolations which it would be outside our duty to discuss-is a body reinforced by sunlight, fresh air, and intelligently chosen food,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 4
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400Better Health New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 4
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