A health & counsel bureau / by Eustace Miles.

  • Eustace Miles
Date:
[between 1900 and 1920]
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Credit: A health & counsel bureau / by Eustace Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I gather from your letter that you are prepared to try a strict diet, in order to escape from this trouble. I will not give you this diet in full, but I will mention four features of it : namely, fresh fruit-juices (in a little pure water), to be sipped early in the morning ; and pure, clear vegetable-juices, in the form of a vegetable soup, to be sipped last thing at night. You could make “ Emprote,” in various forms, your chief Food-basis ; and take a little pure Nut oil after one of the daily meals. [See also No. 66.] THIRTY-SECOND SERIES. (122) EXERCISE DURING THE HOLIDAYS Most people during their holidays practise no Physical Culture at all, but rely upon their walking, or rowing, or games. Would you advise me to do this on my (122) Exercise holiday ?—I. V. during the Holidays. I should advise you to start a system of Physical Culture, if you have not started one yet, during your holiday, so that you can easily keep it up when you get back to your work in Manchester. One of my Health Pupils had a Course of Lessons in our Physical School. He first had two lessons, one in breathing, and one in stretching, with the idea of practising these exercises during his holiday, although he was going to have plenty of outdoor life. Anyhow, I should advise you to go in for a little sensible physical culture, perhaps by a Correspondence Course, before your holiday begins. Then 3^ou will not be tired by the exercises, and you will enjoy your holiday all the more. Certainly do not give up your exercises suddenly when your holiday is over ; that is a great mistake. If you start during your holiday, let us say a ten minutes’ daily Course in breathing, stretching, relaxing, etc., when you get back you will naturally continue this course. During the Course, be sure to be as deliberate as possible. Attend to the exercises, for there is no hurry during the
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