YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here s How! By JANE STAFFORD YOU may be ever so weary when you start cooking dinner in the evening or making your morning coffee, but don't take a nap while the soup or vegetables are...
...You may never wake up...
...To eliminate enough of this from the diet means patients must cook everything, including bread, at home, and if they drink milk, that must be treated to remove the sodium...
...Biggest toll is taken by falls...
...Grollman believes, was that the diet was not really free of salt, or rather, of sodium...
...Many of the falls at night were, as you might suppose, due to inadequate lighting of halls and stairways...
...This suggestion is based on experience with a patient who had high blood pressure and subsequently developed Addison's disease, an ailment resulting from )a/-k of the hormone produced by the cortex of the adrenal glands...
...Shorter hours of work and relief from pressure of production and the general anxiety generated because of the possibility of being called into the armed forces" are the reasons Dr...
...The importance of the cortex, or outer part, of the adrenal gland for the development or maintenance ol essential hypertension, one kind of high blood pressure, is suggested by Dr...
...These findings, from a survey begun last April and planned to continue into next year and to include several hundred plants of all sizes involving over 1,000 000 workers, were reported by Dr...
...George A. Perera, of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...Not all patients, however, are helped by this diet, which also accounts in part for the failure of dietary control to attain general recognition...
...His blood pressure continued high while the Addison's disease was being treated with synthetic adrenocorticohormone...
...Sappington gives for the improvement in industrial workers' health...
...They have less nervous indigestion, insomnia, cumulative fatigue, and nervous exhaustion...
...This type of diet treatment was tried many years ago and abandoned when it failed to give good results...
...By JANE STAFFORD YOU may be ever so weary when you start cooking dinner in the evening or making your morning coffee, but don't take a nap while the soup or vegetables are cooking or when liquid is being heated on a gas stove...
...War's End PITTSBURGH—Industrial workers have decidedly fewer health complaints, now that the war is over...
...On the other hand," he stated, "in some quarters there has been an increase in the incidence of occupational disease in plants which have had no such experience during the years of the war emergency...
...New Angles On High Blood Pressure CHICAGO—New angles on high blood pressure appear in two reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...The hours between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m., incidentally, are surprisingly dangerous ones around the home...
...C. O. Sappington of Chicago at the meeting here of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation...
...If you are conducting a safety campaign in your home, see that there are night lights or lights easily reached from the bed, especially if you have aged or sick persons in, your home...
...A curious thing about the home accidents reported by the insurance company is that so many of them occurred when the persons involved were not engaged in cooking, housework, or any other job about the home but were merely walking from one room to another, up or down stairs, or were relaxing on a chair or couch...
...It is the sodium part of salt, not the chloride, that Dr...
...Last year 10 men and one woman among Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's industrial policyholders died from gas poisoning in this way...
...A salt-free diet treatment will help some patients, Dr...
...Smoking in bed, or even in an upholstered chair so comfortable it relaxes you to drowsiness, is dangerous and continues to take a considerable toll of life...
...Arthur Grollman and collaborators of the Southwestern Medical College report on the basis of animal studies and trials in patients...
...When, however, he was treated with salt alone instead of the synthetic gland chemical, his blood pressure dropped to normal limits...
...The liquid on the stove boiled over and-extinguished the flame, leaving the gas to escape and poison the sleepers...
...This is just one of many ways in which thousands of lives are needlessly sacrificed in home accidents each year...
...Blood pressure readings are lower in employes over 45 years old...
...Grollman finds important in high blood pressure control...
...These accounted for about 40 per cent of fatal injuries suffered by both men and women at night...
...One reason for the failure, Dr...
...Fewer Health Complaints Since...
...This may be due to the laying off of professional personnel and termination of employment of others...
Vol. 9 • November 1945 • No. 47
