YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD WITH the worst of the three annual common cold seasons due next month, most of us would like to do what we can to avoid catching cold. There is no...
...The other two can be anything you like in the vegetable and fruit group...
...Children should have a quart, grown-ups a pint...
...The rules for a good diet are really simple and it should not take long before you are following them from habit without any trouble...
...Whether he advises a vaccine or not, he is pretty sure to tell you to keep up your resistance to colds and other diseases by keeping as fit as you can...
...You need some fat, too, but this, like the meat requirement, is not one you are likely to forget...
...War 'Nerves' And 'Jitters' THE fear-born "jitters" most of us felt during the early days of the war have gone but in their place has come a condition generally called "war nerves...
...Your day's diet should include two servings of whole grain cereal products, including bread...
...one serving of potato ; and one serving of a green or yellow vegetable...
...Some of them should be taken raw, and at least one should be a leafy vegetable such as cabbage, lettuce, spinach, or other greens...
...With one serving of these foods in a day you should also be eating one egg...
...An adequate diet stands high on the list of measures for keeping fit...
...One of the things that helped these patients most, Dr...
...On days when the egg i3 skipped, take a second serving of meat or others in the meat group...
...Some people have reported benefit from cold vaccines...
...Include in the five one serving of citrus fruit, tomato, or cabbage...
...Everyone has a breaking point, psychiatrists find...
...At one such clinic, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, 50 per cent of a group of war workers who were cracking up were quickly helped back to a healthier, happier state and were able to return to or go on with their important war jobs...
...There is no specific, sure preventive of colds, nor any sure cure for them...
...Anyone who is suffering in this way should see a doctor and if his symptoms are due to "nerves" and not to any organic disease, he should consult a psychiatrist or psychiatric clinic...
...Remember to take milk every day...
...Robert V. Seliger reports, was being told the plain truths that "everyone haa-nerves" and that people with "nerves" are not "crazy...
...Even in these days of food rationing and temporary or local shortages in some kinds of foods, you can still follow an adequate diet and be well fed if you give a little thought to the matter...
...Remember that kidneys and liver count as meat...
...Dizzy spells, stomach upsets, loss of appetite, rapid or pounding heart beats, and nightmares may be symptoms of war nerves as well as an anxious, unhappy state of mind that makes work almost impossible and takes the fun out of usual pleasures...
...Some people can stand more strain than others and some will break under the strain of a situation that would not be a strain to someone else...
...Those who do not admit to "having" nerves" at some time or other are, from the psychiatric point of view, probably concealing evidence...
...Poultry, fish, cheese, dried beans, peas, lentils, or peanuts may replace the serving of meat...
...You might ask your doctor about them...
...Most of you will not find it hard to remember to eat ma serving daily of meat...
...This can be taken in cream soups, custard, and over breakfast cereal, or cooked in the cereal as well as a beverage...
...You should eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 50
