How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME by H. A. CLEGG, M.B., M.R.C.P. 1. Be Regular in Your Living Habits A watchmaker will tell you that a watch will keep better time if it is wound up at the same hour each day. The sun rises and sets at regular intervals. With unfail...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1943
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1943
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HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME by H. A. CLEGG, M.B., M.R.C.P. 1. Be Regular in Your Living Habits A watchmaker will tell you that a watch will keep better time if it is wound up at the same hour each day. The sun rises and sets at regular intervals. With unfailing regularity spring comes after winter. Nature sets us an example in being regular in her habits. If we rebel and become irregular in our habits, we pay for it in the long run. Don't think that to be healthy you have to be one of the "big muscle boys." A world made up of heavy-weight champions would be a dull place. What you want to aim at is a smooth working of body and mind. A jerky fitfulness of behaviour, of activity, will disturb yourself and those near you. That is why the first rule of health is to be regular in the habits of living — eating, sleeping, resting, working, emptying the bowels. On a basis of regular habits that self-discipline without which no man can take his full share as a citizen in a civilized community comes easier. Of course, too much regularity can become rather dull, but there is plenty of room for an occasional breakaway. A last-minute decision to go on an excursion, to have a picnic, to visit a friend, often increases the pleasure of the event. Slavish following of a routine is just as harmful as continually living on the impulse of the moment. "That sounds very nice," you may say, especially if you are a wife and mother —" but there is a war on. We had an air raid last night. The children have to be got off early, so that I can go to the factory. And my husband goes to work earlier still. We live rather a long way from it." The woman in the home has a thousand and one difficulties to face. Her man, too, has his family anxieties, and he wants to put all he has into his work. Her health, his health, the health of their children are important to the nation to which they belong, and to themselves as individuals. So the extra effort that may be needed to keep the family's habits as regular as possible in face of such difficulties is well worth while. Start the Day Well. Try to have your meals at the same time each day. This is particularly important for children. At all events, make a good start by having breakfast punctually, and early enough to give everyone in the house a chance to go to the w.c. before work or school. Half the stomach troubles people have begin because they don't give their bowels a chance to open properly after break- 2
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