Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-06-05
Personal and SchOOlr0Om
Hygiene
By Miss Zella Borden

giene are very great subjects
and should be studied by every
one. Unless a person studies
and practices personal hygiene
he cannot have perfect health,
or be successful in life; for
what will it profit a man if he
should gain the whole world,
and lose his health? The prop
er management and operation
of the human body requires not
only care, but intelligent care.
Health is a condition of the hu-
man body in which all the or
gans are sound, and in good
working order. There are de-
grees of health; the fair health,
excellent health, and splendid
health. In youth fair health is
not enough to expect, but in
very old age anything beyond
this would be impossible, there
fore it is very necessary for the
children to study hygiene. Who
would not wish for splendid
health? Then why not try to
take good care of the body.
Many people think that they
must just go on about their
work, whatever it may be, Civ
ing no thought at all to the
maintenance of health or to the
avoidance of disease, in other
words to pay no attention to the
body, and do nothing to keep it
in order. They wait until they
take some disease, then take a
dose of mediciue, or finally call
a physician to try to be cured.
The food we eat has a great
deal to do with the health of our
bodies. Our bodies are repaired
and made to grow by what we
eat, or in other words food is
anything taken into the body
that supplies it with heat,
weight and strength. If a per-
son eats inferior food the body
will be made of poor material,
and will not grow as fast as it
should or do the work it ought
to do, and if poor unhealthful
food is eaten the body will have
to be repaired often; that is the
physician will have to be called
often to give medicine. All
should know what foods are
good for them, and what will
do them harm. Coarse foods
are necessary for the body, such
such as oatmeal and graham
flour. Minerals are also very
necessary, such as lime, salt,
soda, potash and iron.
Pure fresh milk is the only
perfect food. 1t is the only food
that contains all the body most
requires. Being a fluid it is
easily digested, and it is used
for sick people more than any
other food. Milk should never
be ice cold when taken into the
stomach.
Butter is another article of
good food. 1t supplies the body
with much of the fatty material
needed.
Eggs are very excellent food.
They are easily digested when
properly cooked, and contain
much nourishment. They are
more digestible when soft boil
ed in the shell or poached.
The meats used as food are
rich in nourishment. They are
very desirable because of their
excellent taste as well as their
excellent food properties. Beef
is regarded as the best meat for
general use, because it is SO cas-
lily digested. Mutton ranks next |
to beef and is very healthful
when properly cooked, though
many people do not like it. Nut
ton broth is very good food for
sick people. Veal and pork are
not so easily digested, but pork
is more nutritious than veal.
While bread is called the
"stac of life," it is not a per-
feet food when used alone. 1t
contains very little fat in pro-
portion to the amount of starch
Bread is half starch and only
one SEVENTEEN fat. Butter
must be added to make it a COM
plete diet. Bread made of whole
wheat -four contains more food
elements than the -four used to
make white bread.
A person should always know
that his food is pure, because in
large cities the foods are some
times adulterated.