YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD STANDARD advice to sufferers from poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac has always been to avoid contact with the plants and with people, animals,...
...When raw potatoes are called for, as in soups and scalloped dishes, peel them as thin as possible...
...Kleitman became interested in the effect of motion pictures in the course of a long study of the daily body temperature cycle...
...Some good results have been reported from this procedure, but medical opinion is not wholeheartedly in favor of it, judging from a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Shellac, included iii the latest formula, helps to keep the poison off the skin...
...Another reason why increasing your potato and cereal food allowance will probably not affect your weight is that your fat and sugar allowance has been much reduced...
...Light gives them the green spots that are harmful to eat...
...For those who are already suffering from ivy poisoning, the doctor may want to use the tannic acid treatment which has been approved by the Public Health Service...
...By JANE STAFFORD STANDARD advice to sufferers from poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac has always been to avoid contact with the plants and with people, animals, tools, and clothinsr that had touched the plant...
...The rise is enough to be called "highly significant...
...However, even though the spectator is sitting, presumably relaxed in a comfortable seat, for 2 or more hours, the subject matter of the film makes his muscles tense to such an extent that his temperature goes up...
...The important ingredient is still the sodium perborate...
...Several poison ivy protective ointments are now on the market, including one made according to the Public Health Service formula...
...In 1940 the U. S. Public Health Service developed such an ointment, which was a mixture of sodium perborate and vanishing cream...
...Several improvements have been made since then...
...Starting well before the poison ivy season, small, gradually increasing doses of poison ivy extract are given by hypodermic needle...
...If the cosmetic angles—-or curves—are the only ones worrying you, you will probably find that the potatoes and the macaroni and other cereal foods will not cause you to gain weight...
...Body temperature goes up from one-half to one degree Fahrenheit while attending motion pictures, Dr...
...Cereals, whether you eat them as breakfast food, in bread or in some other form at other meals, furnish some minerals, vitamins and protein, as well as energy...
...One of these is being desensitized to the poison...
...For successful use, the ointment should be rubbed all over the face, hands, arms, and any other part of the skin likely to come in contact with poison ivy...
...Potatoes should be stored in the dark or well covered with cloth or paper...
...The procedure is something like being vaccinated but the protective mechanism is not the same...
...He found that after attending a 2 or 3 hour motion picture show, the subject's temperature was higher than usual for that particular time of day...
...Of course, if you are watching your weight and diet for health reasons, you should consult your physician about changes in it...
...Movies Put Temperatuy Up, Do Not Relax Body Hollywood may be able to use a new scientific finding to predict the box-office success of various pictures...
...One medium-sized potato by itself has about 100 calories, no more than an apple and only half the calories of a medium-sized piece of pie...
...The second way poison ivy sensitive persons can try to protect themselves is by use of an ointment...
...Potatoes And Your Waistline Those of you with waistline worries need not be afraid of the extra cereals and potatoes in wartime meals...
...The gravy, butter or other fat that used to go on potatoes was what piled up the calories...
...Other improvements have been in the direction of making the ointment easier to spread on the skin...
...All that would be necessary would be to take the temperatures of members of preview audiences before and after seeing the film, Dr...
...The picture may give "escape from the humdrum reality of existence...
...Be sure to include more fruits and vegetables in your meals when you eat more cereal or grain foods, to include those vitamins and minerals the cereals do not furnish...
...Kleitman has found...
...N. Kleitman, of the University of Chicago, suggests in the forthcoming issue of Science...
...Poison ivy sufferers can consult their physicians about which one to buy...
...Remember that you get the most food value from potatoes when they are cooked in the jackets and that boiling conserves more vitamins than baking...
...This is still sound advice but it always has been difficult to follow and may be more in these days of Victory gardens...
...Fortunately, there are two other ways by which persons sensitive to ivy and related plant poisoning can try to protect themselves...
...Oxygen liberated from this chemical neutralizes the ivy poison...
...One reason is that you probably are getting more physical exercise and doing more physical work...
...Many war jobs call for strenuous physical activity and many office workers are walking more, riding less and doing housework and gardening besides...
...Going to the movies is far from being relaxing in the physiological sense, this finding shows...
...Potatoes, however, rate high as a cheap energy food and also furnish vitamin C, some B vitamins, iron and other important minerals...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 23
