The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-02
d.. MODESTO Give s
Summer Health Hints
to "Y" Members
GET OUT IN THE
SUN, HIS ADVICE
Girls Should Thro W
Away Their Paras0ls,
He Says

With the advent Of summary
weather, Or. J. B. Modesitt. health
authority and director OF the physi-
cal department OF the Detroit Y. NJ.
c. A.. has issued the following in
structions TO the 5000 members of
he association:
II you are not well In warm
weather look TO your clothing. diet
Wear light clothing. light enough
20 tougher the skin.
Get as much sunlight on your
skin as possieie; tan II Up rich and
It's a good thing to expose the en-
tire body to the sun. 50 every part
can become tanned TEE tannins
process touGhens the skin and pro-
tests the anderas'r 's,d tissues s..x their
psrssols and Get the sunlight full in
their faces and on their neeks.
thToats. shoulders and arms. Even
s snf ~, ~ so ssa fo an IN. ssin ''' n
People should not wear hats In the
sunlight. unless the day Is so no,
that injury may result.
and fruit should now compose your
diet. Two or three times q week -
as much as any one should eat meat
IN hot weather.
fresh growing things. Let the meats
alone unless you have an excellent
system Of elimination.
Exercise enough TO insure good
system of elimination and OF eircuia T.
YOU can't a.similate your food
properly without Q proper circuia
FOR the average business man l
would advocate q light work -out la
the gymnasium or outdoors at least
three days q week. This viii give
the sweat glands q chance TO Keep
glands and Kidneys Will then eiimin-
ate all the poisAns OF the body.
The way 20 keep cool in summer Is
to keep clean
People are coming to be more
and mort sensible ideas about food.
clothing and exercise In summer.
said Or. Modesitt, in further expla-
nations Of his rules for summer
health. We arc. for example. wear
ing lighter clo,hing than ever be
fore. especially underwear. don'i
especially advocate the B. ". D. va.
riety of underwear in winter unless
you are able to stand H. but IL
should without any doubt be worn
In summer.
The problem OF clothing for most
people IL the training or lack OF
training Of thei- skin. Every one
should train his skin to stand q GER
tain amount OF exposure. The tan
OF the sumner resort n the health
lest tone the skin can possibly at
tain.
In I'll. matter OF diet, nature has
made a wise provision OF foods In
each OF the climatic zones. For in
stance. you nnd no edible meats in
the torrid zone. In the tropics also
you'll fnd little II any pure natursl
drinking water. You don't need II.
Nature has provided ample water
and liquid in the fruits and vege-
l "a bles.
"wher our American soldiers went
10 Cuba and the tropics during the
Spanish American war. they were
all right until they began to receive
shipments OF American foods
| canned meats. buffers, fats and the
like. Then they went to pieces
physically. They had 10 get bach
TO the dict OF the natives before they
were really ~.
In the Philippine islands, also
the army used &c take men for only
a short time; then they were sent
back TO the United States because
they couldn't stand the climate.
Well II wasn't climate. II was diet
| The men had been eating American
foods. Then the Y. ". G. A
stepped IN. put on q program Of
games ard sports, advocated the
Philippine diet. and the whole
trouble stopped. Men can live az
long IN the Philippines az they car
In the ncrth temperate zone.
| IN the Arctic circle. nature pro
yjded blubber fat and oils. but M
vegetables. All OF which goes Il
show that the body must become :
part OF its environment"