“…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. …”

“…So be sure each member of the family has his or her full ration of them, and see that the children get the extra ration of milk the Government provides to meet their special needs. …”

“…War has reduced our supplies of first-class protein, so plan to make the most of your rations. If you have meat or fish for dinner, don't have cheese as well. …”

“…1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations Page Nits............... 19 Noise and sleeplessness 3 Orange juice, allowance of........ 12 —vitamins, substitutes for............ 11 Oxygen, functions of 9, 10 Parents and children's health.... 16,17 Parsley, food value of 12 Pasteurised milk .... 20 Peas, food value of.. 10 Potatoes, food value of........ 10, 11, 12 —to cook .......... 12 Protective foods..... 8 Protein, need for .... 10 Public Health Services............21, 22 Radishes, food value of..............................12 Rationing and balanced diet................8 Raw foods, value of..12 Recreation....................6-7 Regularity, importance of......................2-4 Respiration ................9 Rest ............................2, 7 Rickets ........3,8,11 Routine ....................2 Rowing exercise .... 7 Salads, food value of 2 Salmon, food value of 10 Salts in vegetables... 12 Scabies............ 19 Scarlet fever........ 20 School Nurse........ 19 Scurvy............ 8,11 Seawater bathing.... 6 Sex problems......14, 15 Shoes for women.... 7 Sleep, hours required 3, 4 —regularity in...... 2-4 Sleeplessness, remedies for.............. 3-4 Slimming tablets, danger of........ 8 Smoking, excess .... 13 Sneezing, and germs.. 21 Sore throat, a cause of 20 Spinach, food value of 10 Spirits, effects of.... 13 Starch foods, need for 9 Stomach disorders, causes of ........ 2-3 Suet, food value of..10 Sugar, food value of.. 9 Sunbathing precautions............. 5, 6 Sunburn, to avoid .. 6 Sunshine, value of.. 5 "Sunshine" vitamins 11 Sunstroke, to avoid.. 6 Sweat, function of ... 5 Swede turnip, food value of.......... 11 Sweets, food value of 8 Swimming.......... 6, 7 Tea ..............3,13 teeth, foods for....10 Temperature, fluctuations of................5 —healthy....................5 —ideal room................5 —normal ....................5 Thinness ....................8 Thyroid tablets............8 Tobacco........................13 Tomatoes, food value of .......................12 Tuberculosis, a cause of.............. 8,20 Typhoid fever.... 20, 21 Typhus........................18 Ultra-violet rays... 5 Underfeeding....... 8 Undulant fever, a cause of..........20 Vaccination ......21-22 Vegetable water, to use.............. 12 Vegetables, raw, value of............... 12 —to cook .......... 12 Venereal disease.....14-15 -causes of......14-15 -ciinics for...... 15 -in parents.... 14 -pregnancy and.. 15 -prevention of.. 14-15 -treatment of... 15 Ventilation ........ 3-5 —black-out and .... 4 Vitamin A.......... 11 Vitamin B........10, 11 Vitamin C.......... 10 Vitamin D..........5,11 Vitamin E.......... 11 Vitamin K.......... 11 Vitamins in vegetables 11, 12 Walking.......... 7 War effort, and illness 20 War work and health 3, 6 Water, importance of 3,13 —purification of.... 22 Watercress, food value of..............10,12 Welfare Centres.... 11, 22 Wheatmeal bread.... 12 Whooping cough.. 20,22 Women, shoes for .... 7 —thinness in........ 8 —Health Services for 22 Work, regularity in.. 2 Worry, causes of .... 16 —sleeplessness and .. 3 To be purchased from His Majesty's Stationery Office at : York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120 George Street, Edinburgh, 2; 39/41 King Street, Manchester, 2; 1 St. …”