The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March, 1921
The Health Bulletin
This is the season of the year in our
climate when people instinctively endeavor
to procure green stuff of every
available kind for food. Even the
animals, such as hogs and horses, fight
over bits of green food. Poultry revel
in the delights of the rye patch, and
so on. This is an age old instinct, which
has guarded the health of man since his
origin. In very recent years scientists
have discovered a peculiar ingredient in
foods called vitamins which is necessary
to healthy life. They have found
that nearly all green foods and leafy
vegetables constituting the base of
numerous salads are rich in what they
call Vitamin C, the anti-scurvy vitamin.
These foods are what we know as fresh
clean raw vegetables and various fresh
fruits. They can be made into any
number of delightful salads by using
different kinds of salad dressings.
Nearly all the dressings have vegetable
oil, fruit juices, such as lemon juice
and vinegar ; and eggs as the principle
ingredients. These foods have an
abundance of water in them, are rich
in mineral salts and afford bulk.
Primitive man lived exclusively on
nuts, fruits and leafy vegetables growing
wild in the primeval forests which
were his first home. Then came the
era of the development of cooking and
Requests for a definition of physical
education would doubtless bring almost
as many interpretations as replies. And
yet there is no more important element
in the curriculum of school or higher
educational institution than this. The
Nation's Health has printed from time
to time results of examination of students
of all grades, which have shown,
without exception, the lack of appreciation
of physical impairments on the one
hand or attempts at their correction, on
the other. All schools have students
suffering from physical defects which
interfere with their educational advancement.
These defects are the result
of health neglect in early life.
Many can be corrected or improved by
careful health supervision and proper
recreational
activities.
SALADS IN MARCH DIETARY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
the use of a greater variety of foods
including various kinds of meats and
bread from cultivated grain. It is a
fact that has been observed by many
writers that the poor people of all lauds
and countries, until very recent times,
were the chief users of greens in their
food. The rich people refused to eat
such foods because they regarded it
poor folks diet and because they were
cheap and common and plentiful. However,
now that such foods are known
scientifically to be necessary to health
they are utilized fully by the well-to-do,
who find them just as delicious as poor
folks have always done. This is well
because the supply is just as plentiful
as ever, and the increased demand for
such food affords the opportunity to
make a living for millions of people all
over the earth. Thus the economic
status of people everywhere is improved
and the health of all the inhabitants
of the earth promoted.
Dr. W. A. Evans, a syndicate health
writer, quotes from a bool< on Salads
by Arnold Shircliffe to the effect that
"Leafy vegetables, coarse grains, bran,
pure water, sunshine and exercise is a
remediable prescription in preventive
medicine accepted and agreed upon by
those learned in the art of scientific
nutrition."
We sometimes wonder how much real
benefit the entire student body receives
from the highly developed athletic
activities of schools and colleges.
Among the most imposing items regarding
these contests are the number of
spectators and the gate receipts. Would
not the same financial outlay devoted
to the physical development of the student
body as a whole give greater return
in better health and longer life
While there would be fewer "heroes"
of track and field, there would also
probably be fewer cases of heart or
kidney disease, of defective vision, of
other degenerative diseases in later life,
because abnormal tendencies would
have been corrected while they were
most amenable to treatment.
Million dollar stadia are not necessary
for a sound program of physical