The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
Some Health Resolutions
 For The New Year

get his advice as to the amount and tcharacter of exercise to be taken, and follow faithfully any other directions
 he. may give. Those who are just run down, nervous, and suffering from
 'Americanitis,'' usually lack the will power to force themselves to take ad- equate exercise. Such men cannot
 make a better resolution than to place
 themselves in the hands of a qualified
 physical trainer, who will put them
 through rigorous course of sprouts
 that wil take the kinks out of their
 systems. Another mighty good resol-
 ution is to see the dentist, if your
 teeth are at all in need of attention. Many minor ailments are due to bad teeth.
 the doctor anything that may be due him. Some physical culture instructors have sought to glorify themselves by denouncing physicians. These pro
 fessors' declare that physicians are ilhbera1 and intolerant, when, a matter of fact, practically all 'phy-ic- ia,ns advise exercise and physical cu1-
 ture for their patients. Who then, is
 intolerant and illiberal? Not the doctor, certainly.
 Another New Year resolution you may be considering is the adoption of
 some food fad.'' Don't. Of course,
 in certain ailments, certain foods are to be adopted, and others avoided, but a good physician is the best judge of that. For people who are run down and nervous, and have no serious di- seases, good, well-rounded diet of meat and vegetables and fruit and eggs and mi1k-just such a diet as is provided by a welI-to-do farmer-is
 usually the best. That's just the sort
 of food that is provided at my Babylon Fhealth farm,'' and the boys thrive it. If such food disagrees
 with you, it isn't the fault of the food. but is due to inactivity. Work a1f hour or two before dinner, punching the bag, boxing, chopping wood, and indulging in other sports that make
 you perspire enough to bring the inn
 purities out of your system, and I'll
 wager that within a few days you'll be eating any hearty, weIl-cooked food that is set before you, and crying for
 more.
 l If you have smoked for a long, time,
 and want to quit, and you are fairly
 we'll and strong, you can probably re- solve to stop the weed at once, and
 make good. This may not be always
 desirable, however, if you are weak and run down. Try cutting down your allowance gradually but surely. until you smoke but one a day. Smokers who have tried this plan say that one cigar a day, after dinner, is real treat, and that they never realized how
 good a cigar could be until they got
 
 even that one may be so harmful that you'll have to quit it but don't cross that bridge till you get to it. The
 same method can be applied success
 fully to the drink habit, although I
 would strongly recommend that all hard liquors be dropped at once, and
 that you drink nothing stronger than ale, stout, beer. porter or Iig7St wines until you reach the point where you can stop entirely
 | Another good resolution that would bear big interest in health and hap
 piness would be to retire earlier, and 1 to get up, in time so that you could
 spend, half an hour each morning
 taking breathing exercises and punch l ing the bag, followed by a cold bath and a, brisk rub downn. Upon leaving the shower or tub jump up and down violently while rubbing off and you will thus rid yourself of half the terrors of a cold bath Finally, resolve that if you can't keep your resolutions, you will hunt
 up somebody who will make you keep CAO1A