THE NATIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL JULY r KEYSTONE VIEW CO. 1946 * Relaxing Exercises * Why a Vacation? 62d YEAR OF PUBLICATION * Do's and Don't's in Cooking * How to Live Longer * Toddlers' Bathroom Privileges * Do You Need Glasses? POTATO SALAD with LOMA LINDA Nuteena And this is just one of the many hearty and nutritious hot weather dishes that can be made with Loma Linda Nu- teena. You'll find other delicious salad and sandwich suggestions on the label. Nuteena is rich in protein and for- tified with added amounts of vitamins B„ B,, and needed minerals. Enjoy its smooth texture and delicate flavor. • FREE Recipe Book, fifty-six selected and tested recipes, many new and dif- ferent ideas. Write for your copy to- day to Dept. L LOMA LINDA FOOD COMPANY Arlington, California In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH Articles Pages Editorials 4 How to Live Longer 6 Carrol S. Small, M.D. Why a Vacation? 8 Harold J. Hoxie, M.D. Baby Learns of Bathroom Privileges 10 Winea Simpson, M.D. Relaxing Exercises 12 Clarence W. Dail, M.D. Doctor, Do I Need Vitamins? 15 John D. Rogers, M.D. Do You Need Glasses? 16 Robert J. Schillinger, M.D. Four Essential Minerals 19 J. Wayne McFarland, M.D. Cooking to Conserve Minerals and Vitamins 20 A Vitamin Chart 22 Harold M. Walton, M.D. Departments News in Small Doses 5 The Dietitian Says 14 Safety for You and Yours ____________ 18 this delicious DIET-BULK iiod gives Clippings From the Medical Press 23 The Housewife's Corner 24 The Family Physician 26 you 3 till po rta nutrients The Mother's Counselor 28 Just for Boys and Girls 30 Gardening for Health 32 How Good Is Your Memory? 33 Your Mental Attitude 34 Crisp, crunchy Nabisco 100% Bran's always a welcome ad- Mother as a Nurse 35 dition to the diet when your constipation is due to insuffi- Nutrition News __ 38 cient bulk in daily food. It's appetizing either as a cereal dish, or mixed in muffins and cookies that can easily be prepared from recipes on the box. In addition to being a flavorful source of diet-bulk, Nabisco 100% Bran provides the nutrients, iron, phosphorus and Vitamin B1. Nabisco 100% Bran is finer-milled MAN cannot control the weather, but he can learn how to beat the heat in the to make bran particles smaller, "eas- summertime. A discussion of treat- ier" on you. Mild and gentle in action! ment and precautions in sugar diabetes. The staff of life, its importance to Sold in pound and half-pound the world and to you. Some vacation packages in foodstores. food hints for picnic lunches. Cross- eyes and other muscle disorders of the eye. Part IV of the series. Fruit salad reci- pes. A good night's sleep—but how? One of the litany fine FINE foods More exercises in relaxing. f tAto-:-°' viCr— baked by Nabisco NAtional Vol. 62, No. 7, July, ' 1946. Issued monthly. filScuit Printed and published by Review and Herald Publish- vilified ing Association, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., COMpagy U.S.A. Subscription rate, $1.75. Canada and foreign TO MAKE BRAN higher. When change of address is desired, both old PARTICLES SMALLER and new addresses must be given. Entered as second- class matter June 14, 1904, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. JULY, 1946 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH PAGE 3 LIFE & HEALTH P. MANY common diseases slip up on us t -AIWA The National Health Journal . • Founded 1885 unawares. A few causes of the principal - e diseases and some hints on how to live longer "MILO may help you. Page 6. P. FREQUENT short 'vacations are more bene- ficial than infrequent long ones; especially is this true if one is aiming to avoid chronic Polio fatigue. Page 8. NFANTILE PARALYSIS (poliomyelitis) occurs most frequently in the summer ao Do you become impatient with baby's and fall months. There are many questions in regard to infantile paralysis that habits? Some helpful counsel for parents when training the small child. Page 10. I remain unanswered. How it is spread and why it strikes certain localities and 00 RELAXATION results from an absence of passes others by, are but two of the problems science has not completely solved. effort. The author takes you through a series We do know that approximately "50 per cent of all victims recover completely, of exercises to detect tenseness and show how with no trace of paralysis, 30 per cent are left with slight disability, and only 20 relaxation can be learned and applied in a per cent suffer crippling or death." part of the body. Page 12. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gives the following suggestions Po TRY vitamin-filled fresh vegetables from your gardens to supply your daily vitamin during the "polio" season: needs. Page 15. "A few simple precautions exercised in an epidemic area may prevent the disease or mitigate its severity: ► ARE you one of those folk who lose time removing and replacing your glasses instead "Avoid chilling and overtiring. of wearing bifocals? When they are indi- "Do not swim or bathe in polluted waters. cated, the majority of people become accus- "Avoid tonsil and adenoid operations. tomed to bifocals. Page 16. "Wash hands before eating. 110 A-Lks your child adopted the "buddy sys- tem" when he goes swimming? Page 18. "Protect food from flies. "Above all, don't yield to panic and don't worry about the expense. Experienced P. FOUR essential minerals—calcium, phos- phorus, iron, and iodine. Page 19. medical personnel and the best equipment known are ready, and, although infantile paralysis is one of the most expensive diseases known to medicine and few families See special offer on page 23. Color- can afford prolonged treatment, the National Foundation and its chapters, supported ful pictures on practical cooking pro- by your March of Dimes, are pledged that no victim need lack treatment for want of cedures. Pages 20 and 21. funds—regardless of age, race, creed, or color." With ever-increasing efficiency infantile paralysis is being treated. Sister Kenney's 110 A VITAMIN chart, summarizing functions treatment, with the use of hot packs, is by far the best method yet devised in the in the body, valuable sources, and recom- early stages of this disease. Later on it may be necessary to wear some type of sup- mended daily allowances of vitamins A, B, port or have surgery performed on the weakened limbs. Here again new and im- C, and D. Page 22. proved procedures are being used. Polio, although still a crippler, is not the dreaded 10 SUMMER desserts—and canning, too, disease it once was. Page 24. 0. THE Little Jays serve a real dinner. Can She Cook? Page 30. 0. SOME Do's and Don't's to save flour. OOKING and the cook come in for their share of pleasantries when stories are Page 38. about. However, it is not a laughing matter if it turns out that "she can't C cook." If only the truth were known, the epitaph over many a grave would read, "Died of poor cookery." The science of nutrition has come a long way since the discovery that protein, fats, and carbohydrates are not sufficient to maintain health. Minerals and vitamins as regulators of important body processes must be included in the daily food intake if optimum health is to be obtained. Along with this discovery of vitamins and minerals came the knowledge that improper cooking might seriously reduce these vital substances. And if minerals EDITOR J. Wayne McFarland, M.D. and vitamins are lost along the way because of poor cooking, the results are sickness CONSULTING EDITORS and disease. Harold M. Walton, M.D., F.A.C.P. Many a home which appears well fed is actually ill-fed. The preparation of Walter E. Macpherson, M.D., F.A.C.P. Robert A. Hare, M.D., F.A.C.P. food is one of the essentials in which every homemaker should be vitally interested. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS But how few are really willing to put forth the time and effort required to become George K. Abbott, M.D., F.A.C.S. efficient as good cooks. John F. Brownsberger, M.D., F.A.C.S. D. Lois Burnett, R.N. Imagine a home where mother must depend on the bakery, the delicatessen, the Alton D. Butterfield, M.D., F.A.C.S. canning industry, corner drugstore, and can opener for meals. These are perfectly Belle Wood Comstock, M.D. Leroy E. Coolidge, M.D., F.A.C.S. all right and very proper, but all credit is due the mother who can prepare an George T. Harding, M.D., F.A.C.P. entree that would tempt the most epicurean taste, whose vegetable plates, fresh Daniel H. Kress, M.D. Carl J. Larsen, M.D. salads, and fruit dishes are the envy of her friends, whose homemade bread is some- M. Winifred McCormack, R.N. J. Russell Mitchell, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. thing you talk about, and whose desserts—well, the soda fountain would go bankrupt Arlie L. Moon, M.D. if mother just wanted to go into business. Alfred B. Olsen, M.D., L.R.C.P. (London) M.R.C.S. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Cambridge) Cooking is one of the finest arts and sciences known. Upon proper selection and C.