How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME you do, do not take slimming tablets or thyroid tablets without a doctor's prescription. People have died from taking tablets supposed to make them slim. The usual advice to the fat who want to get thin is to tell them to...
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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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28 pages : illustrations
HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME you do, do not take slimming tablets or thyroid tablets without a doctor's prescription. People have died from taking tablets supposed to make them slim. The usual advice to the fat who want to get thin is to tell them to eat less, especially of sweet and starchy foods. In these days of rationing any adjustment of your diet had better be carried out carefully. You need not, of course, eat your ration of sweets. But concentrate on taking more exercise, and begin gradually. Advice to those Underweight. Being too thin is little better than being too fat. In young women, in particular, leanness is no advantage. Unfortunately, during recent years it has become fashionable for girls and young women to be slim, and they usually manage this by eating too little, rations or no rations. Young women, especially, should eat their full ration, because tuberculosis is commoner among them than among other people. Under-feeding, especially of fats, gives tuberculosis a chance to obtain a hold on a person. There are, by the way, no such things as "slimming foods." 5. Choose the Right Food It is probable that you already know a lot about food and food values. One of the benefits of this war is the more intelligent interest everyone has taken in food, thanks to necessity and the efforts of the Ministry of Food. If your interest has been aroused, please keep it up now, and when peace comes. Much misery has been caused by faulty feeding and by ignorance of food facts. Thousands upon thousands have died because of such ignorance. For example, in the East, natives living largely on polished rice die of a disease called beri-beri. This is because the vitamin which protects against this disease — vitamin B1 — is thrown away with the husks polished off the rice. In the Philippines some 18,000 people died of beri-beri in 1925. Scientists and doctors are not just being faddy, therefore, when they are anxious that everyone should every day eat enough of the protective foods — the foods that protect against diseases like beri-beri, rickets, and scurvy. Let it be said at once that if you take a good mixed diet — and you can still do so in spite of food rationing — you need not worry about whether you are having enough of this or that. But you must know what is "good." The Source of all Your Energy. It is becoming rather hackneyed to compare the human body to a machine. But the comparison is a useful one, because most of what is known about the way the body works can be explained on mechanical principles. The engineer can 8
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