We need all our physicians, but all of us, the
doctors included, would be healthier and happier
if each one of us would constitute himself a
P. M. D.-— Doctor of Preventive Medicine
‘By Hans
S. Anderson
Dietitian
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The children of brown and yellow races in Hawaii learn to like milk
piano with its equipment of 200 strings, more or less!
Again, let us consider briefly the voice. In all
the realms of music, we must confess that the human
voice is supreme. It is the voice alone that can
awaken and stir the deepest emotions of the soul.
Consider its varied qualities, its richness and melody,
and above all, its individuality. One can recognize
the voice of a friend speaking over the wire, though
he be thousands of miles away. Says the Psalmist:
“1 will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonder-
fully made.” Psalm 139: 14.
Our LEASE ON LIFE
EN and women everywhere desire to live as
long as possible, and to know that their lives
have been a success. Good health means ease of mind
and body, repose, quiet, freedom from pain,
disturbances, or injury. When one’s physical wel-
fare is below par, and one is barely able to keep going
the day through, that is “dis-ease,” whether the
symptoms be the most serious or not, or whether
it be called by some big-sounding name or not.
When one is well, one is able to enjoy even greater
physical and mental ease through maximum health.
But this condition never comes merely by accident.
MAY, 1929
Neither nature nor knowledge can produce health
without the use of the right kind of food.
Science has been adding tremendously to our
knowledge of food values during recent years, and
is now able to point out with great exactness the
part that the various kinds of food elements play in
the maintenance of health. As American people,
we take pride in saying that we have at our command
a knowledge of the highest standards of living in
the history of the world. We are living in a time
when there is money, and comfort, and freedom;
but at the same time we are finding out that we
do not live long enough to enjoy these things.
The master minds in the affairs of the
world today recognize that the health
of its people is a nation’s greatest asset,
and leading governments are beginning
to see the need of educating the masses
on health topics. Good health is, above
all other earthly possessions, priceless.
A man may have the keenest brains,
and at the same time his ability may be
paralyzed because he is not in the pos-
session of good health; for this is the
driving force that makes the gift serve
him.
Foop AFFECTS THOUGHT
WE ARE, in truth, products of
what we eat. Every ounce of
what we are is the result of what we eat.
Some food constituents contribute to
the enriching of the blood, while others
enter into the structure of bones, teeth,
and muscle. Therefore, our food is the
key to the solution of our health
dreams, and the answer to life's riddle — how to
secure and maintain the inestimable gift of health.
Health is often undermined by slow-working,
unseen causes, acting for a long period of time, rather
than by a sudden exposure to disease, or the acci-
dental breaking out of symptoms. It now seems
certain that the most important of these causes is
improper diet. And if disease comes to us from what
we put into our mouths, or from what we fail to
put into our mouths, then disease can be corrected
and cured by eliminating the cause.
Normal food, as received direct from the hand of
nature, unprocessed and served in as natural a
condition as possible, contains the same essential
constituents of which the human body is composed.
These several constituents being lost or given off
by the body day by day, it follows that unless we
eat foods containing all of these elements we shall
suffer from inferior physical development, nervous
instability, lack of endurance, and lack of resistance
to infection, particularly tuberculosis, and to
deficiency diseases such as pellagra.
Personal experience in driving a car teaches one
that in addition to a good supply of gas in the tank
there must also be sufficient oil for (Cont. on page 33)
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