THE HONGKONg Telegraph, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1989,
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GOOD HEALTH
ALSE notions about health are common to mankind the world
over.
For instance, to be, topical, have you believed this summer that the benefit derived from sunshino la determined by the length of exposure to the sun's rays, by the intensity of the ton produced; that "one cannot get too much sunshine"?
Here are some facts: 1.-Min, being an animal and not a tree, does not require |prolonged exposure to the sun's
The nations mass their forces in search of what was once man's individual ideal: good health. Some believe that gymnastics will bring bodily fitness; others doubt it. Many think that diet is the secret of physical efficiency; many more trust in exercise. What is one nation's meat is often another's poison.
Here a distinguished. American, Dr. AUGUST A. THOMEN-whose work Lord Horder says will "successfully challenge the most severe criticism”— tackles the subject from an entirely new angle.
rays for his proper physiologi is perhaps not too dearly bought sent in the body fluids which
cal functioning. The best proof of this statement is to be found in the fact that the inhabitants of the Arctic and Antarctic re- gions do not suffer as a result of their yearly recurring six months of night.
2-That a sun-tan promotes caith is a delusion. Its chief benefit derives from the fact that it permits one to go about in the sun without further burn- ing. The tan is thus Nature's device for protecting the body against continued absorption of the sun's rays.
thus."
FATIGUE ...............
That chronic fatique in healthy persons is usually due to over-work!
bathe them.
Tests made in physiological laboratories have proved that it is very difficult to produce fat- gue in a nerve.
It is the belief of many phy- THIS is an erroneous sicians who have studied the opinion, however, for problem that this type of fatigue the real reason in the majority is due to the drugging, as it chronic acidosis were, of nerve tissue by the of cases is a ranging in degree from mild- over-production of acid products ness to severity. It is easily due to an excessive eating of proved that the hardest kind of acid-forming foods. physical work does not produce chronic fatigue in a healthy in- 'dividual.
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A night or two of sleep, cs- 3. A brief exposure to sun- pecially with a day of rest be- shine is productive of all the tween, will always suffice to re- possible good that can be ex- fresh a person who has become
EATING
That if one cats green apples he will most certain-
ly get a stomachache? ̧
THE correct answer is that it is much more. important to chew the brend- stuffs, vegetables, and fruits. than it is the meat. Yes, strange as it may seem, it is far more important to chow one's mashed potatoes ment or fish.
than one's
lemons,
: That oranges,
grape fruit, tomatoes, etc.. form acids in the body?
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FRUITS and vegetables form alkaline sub- stances in the human body--ox- cept prunes, pluins, cherries, and cranberries. It is interest-
ing to note that most often ripe, huve uncooked plums and cherries -aplensant, sweet taste; yet they form acids in the sys- tem, while the most sour 'lemon forins an alkali. Evidently our taste is not a proper guide in- the matter.
come
.READING
That reading light must from over the left shoulder to be the most ef- fective?
IT has been determined by experimentation that it matters not from where the light comes, provided there are no shudowa, cast upon the
THERE is nothing in page, and provided the rays green apples to cause from the light do not enter the
Hongkong Telegraph. pected. There is no scientific extremely tired from excessive a stomachache in itself. If the eye.
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All In It Together
Hylton's Orchestra ONE IMPORTANT factor in the defence of Hongkong seems to have escaped notice.
Why doesn't somebody tell me these things-F.T. I've got a pocketful of dreams-Quick step...Pierre's Orchestra Two Sleepy People-F.T.
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Blue Skies are raund the Corner-Quick setp
That is the question of com-
You must have been a beautiful baby-F.T...Dorney's Orchestra pensation for loss of civilian life
Stop bratin' round the mulberry bush-F.T. Blue Interlude-F.T.
My Melancholy Baby-F.T.
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or property in time of war.
In the last war restitution was not accepted as a Government responsibility, and, happily, the question · never arose in this Colony.
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The subject is one which has arlsen in England, where the Government has agreed in prin- ciple to the payment of pensions
justification for the "ultra" bathing suit. The exposure of a small portion of the body ac- complishes as much good as if the entire body were exposed.
4-The exhilarating effect of sun-bathing experienced by many who use this measure in a sensible manner is derived as much from the free air circulat- ing about the body as from the
aun,
6.The best time (some
authorities say the only time
for sun-bathing is from dawn to 9 a.m., the next is from
p.m. to sundown.
d
etc.
6. In summer one does not have to be in the direct sunshine to obtain its benefits, because the actinic rays are reflected from dust particles in the air, the .clouds, buildings, What is known as skyshine is as healthful વાસ sunshine. This explains the interesting fact that some persons can get a definite, though mild, sunburn while walking on ahaded city
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Such is my approach to health through exposing health fal- lacies.
Here are a few more fallacies, chosen at random from a collec-
Navy pensions for civilians killed or disabled in air raids, and, more important, for the payment in part of compensation of hundreds. Do you be- tion for wrecked or damaged lieve buildings.
In the Far East, Hongkong property owners must be con- scious of the heavy losses they will face if this Colony is over involved in war. Many people now in Hongkong, in fact, were the losers in the Shanghai holo- causts in 1932 and 1937. There must be hundreds of residents in this Colony who have lost practically everything they pos- sessed in Canton.
SLEEPING
That it is not an entirely healthful habit for one to sleop on his left side be- cause such a position em- barrasses the heart's action?
THIS misconception is evidently related to the fallacy concerning the posi- tion of the heart. It is brought to the attention of physicians every now and then by anxious patients. There is, however, no foundation in fact for such a notion.
In certain forms of heart dis- ense the left side of the heart Insurance is ruled out as aenlarges considerably because of practicable basis for war risks the extra work It has to per- of this kind. Although an at- form (quite as the blacksmith's muscles enlarge because of his tempt was made to force the strenuous work). insurance companies to meet When the heart becomes en- claims after the Chapei holo-larged in such a manner, a larger portion of the organ is caust in 1932, the amounts found on the left side. Even in claimed were so astronomical such instances no harm can re- that they defented their object.sult from one's sleeping on his left side because of the satisfac- Obviously, no insurance com- tory protection given by the pany in the world would be able chest wall, formed by the ribs,: to meet the claims arising from muscles, etc. the destruction of a city by bombing,
It boils down to this, then: If property holders are to be protected, protection must come from the Government.
If there is to be war, then from the start the principle must be accepted that we are all in it together.......
That night air is unhealthy?
DR. C. W. SALEEBY saya: "Night air con- tains fewer organic gases, since, in the absence of the sun's heat, putrefactive processes are less active. Certainly night air con-
ins no kind of mlaama pecu- liar to itself except that produced in the bedroom....
"As to solid matter, night nir again has the advantage for the city dweller sirico less traffic The
he authorities are taking the means less dust, less microbo, i necessary measures to protect | Inden dust. Night air differs, human lives on this basis.. But what about property? It is ad- mittedly a far less important consideration; novertheless the people who invest in this Colony are entitled to some protection.
again, in that it is colder, að á rule, and undoubtedly if you propose to ventilate your bed- room you may require an extra blanket.
"The advantage of breathing pure instead of foul air during one-third of our whole existence
work.
apple is eaten slowly and auf- Bat the chronic fatigue which ficiently chewed the stomach The light should be at least we are now considering is not would not be able to distinguish 26 degrees away from the direct evidently helped by mere rest, between a ripe and unripe one. line of sight, and should be so for it is the tiredness from Eating slowly and. chewing well placed as to avoid direct rollec- which one cannot rest--a nerv. are so important because it is tions from the glossy pages so ous fatigue, with resulting in necessary that the fruit be commonly used. ability to apply one's self thoroughly mixed with the saliva efficiently to the day's work.
for its proper digestion.
That
This type of fatigue is caused by the poisoning, so to speak, of nerve tissues by the impurities, chiefly of an acid character, pre-
be
meat should much more thoroughly chewed than bread, vegeta- bles, or fruit!
The best reading light is that termed "Indirect," in which the source of light is hidden and the rays thrown on the ceiling. This is similar in effect to day- light..
DO YOU HATE ARUM
CHINA HAS done much for me and
∙lo me...
On the credit side of the account she has all but conquered the sting: of obliteration.
To hint that eternal oblivion no-
where is preferable to temporary life in these parts is not the intention.
But, with intense and melancholy recollections of the truly ghastly
of funeralism exhibitions
In other daily, an interested spectator of the countries, and now that I am, almost
seemingly care-free, nearly halirating, colourful' pageants
pong.
ex-
that
LILIES By N. B. W.
SMALL suburban home faced a London cemetery-Hot nearly so lugubrious a situation as it sounds.
Well-grown trees of "laburnam, mountain-ash, hawthorn and poplar: enclosed the ground entirely inside. a golden-chestnut fence.
In the portion yet awaiting tenants birds incessantly twittered in blisa- ful security from all natural enemies, always
excepting the -ubiquitous cat.
Day after day these melancholy; deeply oppressing functions went on,
dank mist, the eternal unrelief of black and white clutched at the heart:
accompany the decensed Oriental, nothing out of the ordinary is hap-and upon a day of chilling rain or the fact that I shall one day person-pening (and is It?). ally all the role of piece dè resia- It is not to be expected that the of the most vointile of individuals, tance in the grand finale, leaves little paid bearers
of banners, of bright of the most persistent of Mark paper_images_and_su...on..would.ex-Taploys.- hibit any degree of regret or surrow; The profusion of fresh blossom, and perhaps to the strings of school-
Welcome was the cheerful inter- the gorgeous tints of peacock-blue, children or the little band of em-rupting note of the shrill and virile Nile-green, crimson and gold of ban-ployes a change of Head is of little neigh of the massive black Flanders ner and habiliments; the clear nir, moment.
stallions which drew the hideous, the golden sunshine all engender
over-ornamented vehicle of shining- hope; suggest the futility of sorrow But even that rounded, mandarta-black and glaring glass, gilded knobs for the inevitable.
capped, black-slik-owned, prosper-and futile, silly carvings. ous and kindly-looking old gentle-
It is true that the chief mourners, man who paces with so dignified an Fine creatures they were, though cream-sackcloth-clad, wail at times, air and slow a gaft at the tail-end cumbrous of build, coats groomed to and are almost invariably supported of the progress, chats cheerily and silken sheen, manes and tails of pro- on either side by friends and sympa- with animation to others like him-digous length and thickness. thisers, but there is more than aj selt.
Upon the proudly tossing, impatient slight suspicion that such an attitude is considered to be "the thing" and must be done in all decorum.
The over-burdened, sweating, gro-heads great blobs of shapen horse- tesquely-habited bearers of the hair-to-day fortunately relegated to flower-secreted entafolque certainly the circus-ring, and gaily coloured at of realize the heaviness of life, what-that. though ever their attitude towards death.
The prevalling note Is one every-day non-chalance, as
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Depr, 1962 by Uhlied Pekture Syndicat..
"I just gotta have more guns, planes, and tanks, Mom! All the other fellas in our block are re-arming!"
How grateful we were to those mighty animals providing a alghed-
for relief in a gloomy, despondent-. hued occasion, seemingly purposely staged for the annihilation of any future hopes,
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AN Italian provincial alty, The Ahonoured dust probably rests: apon a weighty, ponderous vehicle. of white and gold.
the strident chanting of long double nie of white-clothed, professional lady mourners
the
not.
exactly musical, nevertheless it strikes a lively note.
westy
The little acolytes, tired and some- what inattentive with the, tramp on hard stone streets bear enormous candles canting in the most grotesque of drunken attitudes.
The lace-frocked, blue-jowlet priests, gigantic feet Incongruously- ruding below the black alpacz cassocks, somewhat arrogantly scan the staring crowds, and provide in tones atentorian the anti-strophe to the strophe of the walling maidens on ahead.
Then stride the Incense swingers, the gilden vessals all ablaze; the Bearer of the Holy Water, to whom the people urgently and eagerly push, hoping to be blessed with sprinkled drop of sacred Buts.
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WHEN AND it I have leisure bà- Wfore I am induced, to fill the chlet role in such a ceremony, I in- Lond to trace the history of the British obsequles down the pyes, and discover whether we have always taken our pleasures thus padly.