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THE CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 20, 1989
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KEEP FIT THIS CHRISTMAS
CURIOUS, is it not, that most
people think of health ÁLA something entirely physical? Let us admit that the influence of food, exercise, light, and air are very important, at Christmas time es- pecially, but let us not forget the psychological factor in promoting perfect health. In grown-up peo- ple, at any rate, mental processes determine self-discipline or self- indulgence the making of friends, the cultivation of Interests which influence our health and happiness.
Take health at the Christmas season, for example. Food to be- gin with. Christmas fare is not in- digestible. Most of it is good food, highly concentrated, nourishing, palatable, and appetising. Well cooked plum pudding, mincemeat, and Christmas cake contain valu- able fruits. Home-fed turkey is an ideal "flesh" food. Candied fruits are perfectly wholesome, and most housewives are generous with fruit at Christmas time.
DON'T OVER-EAT
That many people are ill as a consequence of Christmas fare has a simple explanation. Over- eating. Rich and concentrated food should be taken sparingly, Break- fast on Christmas morning should consist of tea, toast, orange apple to give appetite and ability to digest turkey and plum pudding.
Children
should have nothing after the Christmas dinner but a light tea-
supper with
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a woman
with health. How can we in this age help to raise "resistance"?
Knowledge concerning food and dietetics is increasing, but very slowly. What should know about food? (1) The best food to buy on health and economi- cal gounds. (2) How It should be cooked so that salts and vitamins are conserved. (3) She should know that Vitamin A is found in milk, fats, and green vegetables; Vitamin B in wholemeal flour; Vitamin C in fresh fruits.
These are concerned with growth, the development of sound teeth, strong bones, healthy blood. They must be included in Christ- mas fare and in the family daily menus of 1940.
BEST ARE SIMPLE
Good health is not promoted by expensive foods or overcooked, highly-seasoned fare served in many courses. The best foods are simple. Lacto-vegetarian foods (milk, cheese, vegetables) will in- crease resistance to rheumatism, ́ cold, catarrhs, and other undesir- able diseases. Herring is a better food than sole. Potatoes, cabbage, wholemeal bread and butter, and a glass of milk make an excellent nursery dinner.
Such simple meals after Christ- mas help to restore balance to the digestion and the family exche- quer.
By Dr. SLOAN CHESSER
plenty of fresh lemonade
or
orangeade. Adults
who
dine in the event will avoid
Old trite criticisms of Christ- mas partles as a menace to health do not concern
us. It one child has in- fluenza or
the measles before rash comes out he is a source of
́that aftermath of depression,- If ----- danger, I-admit. The child-with-
they limit their midday meal to one course and miss "tea" alto- gether.
Two days of semi-starvation after the Christmas season is the best health measure for those who have plenty to eat. Better still, the people who belong to this category should curtail their abundance and send a few shillings anonymously to one of the Distress Funds to pro- vide a Christmas dinner for one poor family.
ONE FUNDAMENTAL
To keep well at Christmas we must remember one fundamental, scientific health maxim; Good Health Depends on Resistance. We cannot escane exnoure to fati- gue, chill, and Infection at Christ- mas time or at any season of the year. The first two'lower, rexis- tance. Germs of bacllit (mleros- cònic, one-celled organiåms against- which our blood cells, like savages, wage continuel war) àre always trying to attack human beings on this part of the earth's surface.
We` cannot altogether escapé fatique if we must work hard, or chill if we are to expose qurselves to weather changes in this Christ- mas season. Indeed, cottonwool environment only makes more susceptible to vicissitudet, physical and paychical. So it convén - back. to our resfétanes, which de- pends frat upon heredity and seć- ondly on environment, food and clothíña, Hint teaching and training
first day of our Uven.
GOOD RESOLUTIONS
the
The best of Food" resolutions.
sufficient "resistance" will escape. The danger is less If rooms are well ventilated and children are not over-tired.
It follows, therefore, that two hours rest in bed is wise pre- caution. If young people are at- tending Christmas parties in the evenings those with "colds" should be deprived of social gatherings for their own welfare and in the interests of others. Children should be sufficiently wrapped up to protect them from chill, and sen- sibly as well as artistically clad. Keep windows, open unless there is for all day and night during the Christmas season..
In other
LIVE GENEROUBLY
Christmas gatherings respects are all to the good. They promote or ought to promote, good social feeling," kindness, friendships. The Christmas feeling should be fostered, conserved, and carried into life in 1940.
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Is it not ́èssential to health that we should keep in our minds the Christmas ideál of love, service,
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