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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 11, 1937.
Last Month the
Prime Minister asked for a
Fitter Britain
T
body.
HERE IS
AN
ARTICLE ON
WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF AND
HOW YOU CAN MAKE THE MOST
OF IT
HE Fitter Britain Campaign was
officially opened by the Prime Minis-
ter last month.
To get fitter you must learn more about your
You might never in your life have handled You might have no in- a spanner or an oil-can. terest at all in anything mechanical. But you are in charge of a machine that no engineer on earth can duplicate.
Your body is more efficient than the finest steam engine or the most expensive motor-car. For the fuel you put into it you get Imek 30 per cent. or 40 per cent, productive mechanical energy. The steam engine gives back only 15 per cent.; the motor-car only 25 per cent.
AND HERE
IS A GUIDE
TO RUNNING
REPAIRS AND
TUNING UP
The ingredients of the human #++|-|-||||||||||---|÷
Inside-arc body-without a mind
worth only a few shillings. There is enough cholorine in, it to disinfect Ave swimming pools; enough fat for
large
ten bars of soap: enough hydrogen to fill a gas-bag that would lift a man; enough Iron to make a nall; enough carbon for 9,000 lead pencils; enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches; enough time to whitewash a chicken coop; enough salt to sen- son twenty-five chickens; enough glycerine to explode a naval shell; enough gluten to make 3lbs. of ghur: small amounts of different salis and metals and ten gallons of water,
But all that is not very expensive to buy.
Selentle research workers might pay a few pounds for a body. They pay twelve gulnens for a normal skeleten.
But they are more interested in abnormal bodles; nol the ones that work well, day in, day out, for u few score years, And that is the sort you have got if you are nor mal, healthy being.
1.
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2.
4.
Have at least eight hours' sound sleep every night in a well- ventilated room so that brain and serves are clear and alert for
next day's work.
Clean them A good digestion is imposible withotat coland teeth. every morning and night, aud let your dentist examine them
once in six months.
The heart can be strained by centimuotis over-exertion, so never run fast, bathe, or undertake any strenuous exercise Immediate- ly after a heavy meat, Consult a doctor if you have frequent pains in the heart region or suffer from breathlessness.
the intestines and other vital The abdominal muscles siipport organs. They cannot do this if they are allowed to become abby. Exercise them by trunk bending, stretching, and turning.
5. The liver is responsible for removing poisons from the body. If it is sluggish these poisons get into the blood stream. Regular dpses of saline to cleanse it, and a regular "liver-squeezing" exercise (bending the body from side, knees kept straight) will
keep it active.
6. The feet have to bear the weight of the body. Keep them free
from corns by wearing well-fitting shoes, and in good condition by toe bending and stretching exercises.
Two billion of these cells are in
the brain. If the blood supply to
these e has the MARRYING FOR MONEY
With a mind inside-it-is-worth-n-the brain wholly ceases for only or eight minutes, cells Rood deal more than a few shillings. seven American scientists have spent severnl necessary for intelligent action are: years and hundreds of pounds just to permanently damaged. build a replica of the human body in
up to £200,000,000 or more.
Jolin D. Rockefeller showed that.
W
rules:--
Don't have meals in a hurry; we need an hour for meal time in the middle of the day; half an hour at breakfast, and half an hour at ten. Don't have long waits between mculs,
The brain
of an average man
MARRIED for money.
Somehow
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carefully over what they are kely to win or lose before they plunge It is not considered so much sn glass and metal. But it has not a mind; for a mind is worth anything weighs 49ozs; that of a woman offence for a woman to murry for
SELFISH DECISION into a marriage purely for money. do not understand why A weighs 44oza.
money. I
I cannot resist the urge to reply there should be this difference, un-
"An Unrepentant Husband" The nerve cells that control us less it is because a woman is sup-
make his married life a to
who "narried for money and has Amount to only one five-thousandth posed to have more right to the com- strove to
regretted it." In the first WWE should all be a lot fit of our total weight; the nerve mes-fort and luxuries of life than a man,
ter if we kept to these sages that are flashing backwards which sounds rather illogical.
I only wish I had similar charac- never and forwards all day travel along al a rate of nearly 270 miles an hour, After reading a certain article I teristles, for my marriage, alas! has place I should like to congratulate admire his absolute or 130 yards a second.
came to the conclusion that it must not been a success. Certainly I have him on bis exceptional good fortune. take a certain type of character to all the comfort and luxury 1 mar- Secondly, I
my husband Isap honesty, which, however, leaves me
I have
alternative but WATER is an essential part make a success of this sort of married for, and
his clrcumstances, and parently quite happy, se the body. Bloodringe. In forms only 6 per cent. of our weight, with his rather practical lype of nothing to reproach myself with
It he revealed himself as being selfish, but water is equal to ten times as mind, it proved to be successtul, and from that quarter. But my life has equally honest strain and say that
something lacking. all honour to him that it did so. The definitely much as this.
lady appeared to be in love with seems to have intle or no purpose. self-seeking, and self-satisfied.
before
le scoffs at the sentimentalist who If 10
per cent. of the water sahin, and he, Tully appreciative of Perhaps my circumstances
declares that "love is everything," the body is lost, serious illness foi-the material advantage of the union, marriage may, throw some light on
the subject.
What he does not seem to realise is Don't hurry about so much; take lows. A 20 per cent, loss of water in the body means almost certain life more easily,
As muy be expected, I was brought that the success of his marriage is death,
up in somewhat struggling circum- largely due to the fact that his wife parents had a very was, and has been all along, in love Everybody
limited income, and I was forced to with him; and that, coupled with work at an earlier age than most the material comforts her money has girls, I believe. When I was nine- been able to provide, has completely
Don't hurry about waits between meals.
Get more exercise; cal food that is good for us.
best.
He now looks with calculating eyes
breathe. A normal breath-taken should drink a quart. Ofteen to twenty times a minute stances. My of milt each day-not only because ives us two quarts of air. A deep Well, what food is good for us? it is a liquid, but because it has all breath takes in a gallon. Two American professors say: "Eat the vitamins in it. Milk is an alkoll Only one-fifth of the air breathed teen, I was engaged to a man who satisfied his one-sided desires. what you want after you have dairy producer. All the other high-protein Into the lungs is breathed out again. was earning about £2 10s a week. products, fruit, and vegetables are fonds pre ucid producers. But at Omce workers breathe only one- We were both deeply in love with
present
the average person drinks tenth the amount they could. That's each other, and had planned
why they're pale. less than a pint each day.
about five pints of Ordinarily,
The nose, important helper in the water pass through the human body-breathing business, excels in the job day. Perspiration accounts of smelling. too. It can smeli one for a great deal of it.
part of vanilli perfume in ten mil is a signal lion parts of dr. Saliva in the mouth
Most people find it too much trou ble to keep to diets and exerciser! But it is a paying game.
every
At birth, a male child can expect to live another fifty-nine years; a female can expect to live another sixty-three years. Those who live to that we need more water. Yet sall- fifty can expect to last, perhaps, to va in B3 per cent, water Itself. Wo
they
IN the human body
IN
marry in two years time. A Definite Mistake
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辣
ACROSS
理
This creature would be very thin it reversed (0).
To enter.contest about a num- ber is finished (8).
0 Vehicle with one side l
end (8).
to Chilly in the extreme (8). 11 Vegetable known
the
to allorn either reversed or curtailed (4).
14 A stepping over the mark (15) cherry stones 10 Result in the rhymes (5).
to at the other girl with whom he was in love, and pats himself on the He back ut his fortunate escape. considers himself noble because, In the days when he was in love with her. he suffered by repressing his In all probability I would have feelings. Did he ever give a passing certainly married him, if it hadn't thought to her side of the question? been for my mother's advice, and
I suppose it nover occurred to him there the attentions of n rather wealthy are 206 bones; 627 mus- business man whom I happened to that, despile the fact that he had not actually naked the girl to marry seventy. But not many do. Yet if form more than one quart of it daily, cles, nome with 600,000 fibres in meet through a friend of mine.
23 A companion finishes alive (7) take care what they eat and It is amazing how the body keeps them. The tongue, when we arc It happened that my flance rb him, he had given her every encoura
his love. That 23 Put on this what is to be put off gement to return how they eat, they can go on living at an even temperature around 90.4 young, has 328 taste buds, but after sented his alienilons, while
(B) my apparently was of no consequence. woll past eighty.
deg. F. all the time.
the age of twenty these tend to dia- mother definitely approved, and so. She
Boon found herself another 25 To the between doubles is dif- old, people have only to cut a long story short, that is how young man and got married. How
·licuit (33) During fever it can rise to 104 appear, and Most brain workers eat too much.
I came to marry, mere or less for typical that is of the average man's 31 The turning of this may kidlenie the catching of it beheaded (4) An average man lying quietly in bed deg. F., but If, as in sunstroke, it about 100 of them,
'point of view. We have got a big salesy margla money.
33 Material for a pudding (8). needs just two lumps of sugar each rises to 108 deg. F. or more, and
his body's needs stays put for a few hours, nerve in our body, too-the safety margin For a time, about six months to be Poor girl How bitter her thoughts 34 Instrumental preliminary to air hour to sailsty
that engineers allow when they exact, I was certainly quite happy, must have been when she found her-
production.(0).· But when ho lands up his needs in- cells in the brain break down..
A brisk walk
build crenac 10 por cent.
bridges and ships and sky-but soon the monotony of my mas- self gently but firmly put on one side 35 An example (8) Alcoholic intoxication can send
scrapers. We could carry on living ridge life began to pall, and even for a woman with money. Her nu-30 The edge of this official la moșt body temperaturu down to 18 det. with one eye or one ear; but we are foreign travel did little to relieve this tural reaction was to find solace in sends the requirements up 200 per
of him (0) cent.
F. At that stage the heart tend to given two.
DOWN another man's affection; but in mar- that people become sluggish. But men can be IT is strango
This will maito you shiver! (0) to outside temperatures learn all kinds of things exposed
The heart can work twice as hard I have been married for several slage it is the woman's love that makes all the difference between a
2 temper that le la all of us about a car before they start run- above 260 deg. F. or under 30 deg. as it usually does without ill effect. years. We have had no children, home and a house, and her love had (6) alg it yet make their living with F. below zero and still keep an even Three-quarters of the liver can be and I am quite convinced I made a already been given where it was not a much better machine without body temperature.
serious distur definite mistake. I do not reproach desired. No wonder she turned into bance. One lung can be collapsed myself unduly, because I feel that a shrow. bothering at all about how B works.
The body heat caused by twenty
the adverse circumstances had a lot The marvel is how the human minutes' hard muscular work would, and life goes on.
to do with it. Nevertheless I na One must admit that "Unrepentant body works at all. For in it are one if not dispersed very quickly con-
not let this extra convinced I have missed the really Husband", took grent risk, and I million billon cells-that is, five vert all the albuminous substance in
margin full you into essential things in life through be at least give him credit for having hundred million times the total num the body into stul ke hard-boiled laziness. You must exercise if you ing afraid to tackle marriage with the courage of his convictions, but ber of people in the world. All entis
(#) want to be healthy all the time, and out a substantial bank-book at my I cannot say that I admire the char- those cells have to function perfect-
acterisiles which prompted his acia THREE hundred million air brisk walking, with deep breathing back.
cells with a superficial and armswinging, is the best and
Just a Woman area of 200 square yards help us to enalest exercise for everybody.
ly together without argument.
that we can live comfortably and
well.
cut away without
BUT do
ennui.
I would therefore warn men and on. women, especially women, to think
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thin sccupation (8)
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he would probably Ny (8),
Rockon it tooka Ma Nists wife (0)
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