1. Most people overeat. Too much food clogs the digestive tract, generates putrefactive products, which poison the tissue cells and which the body finds increasingly difficult to throw off.
2. Be moderate in tea and coffee drinking, but generous in drinking pure water. The passing of the saloon was one of the greatest public health advances in a generation.
3. Always wash our hands before eating. Our handshaking habit encourages a direct transmission of disease germs from person to person.
4. Keep your teeth clean and in good repair. Frequent visits to a good dentist is a good investment.
5. Bathe regularly at least twice a week. It is of the greatest importance that the many miles of tiny sewers of the skin be kept active and the discharges from the mouths of these sewers (grease and swet pores) be washed away.
6. Take some kind of real physical exercise every day. Walk at least two miles daily. Indulge in some kind of plan and recreation.
7. Why worry over things you can not help or for which you are not responsible? Worry saps the energy and vitality, sours the disposition, blunts the appetite, retards digestion, and poisons the whole system. Be cheerful.
8. Have a thorough physical examination by a good doctor at least once each year, and then religiously follow his advice.
9. Sleep at least eight hours each night with the bedroom windows open, or, better, on a sleeping porch.
10. Work regularly at some task, occupation or profession in which you believe, and in which you have the joy of accomplishment. Life without work is uninteresting, unprofitable and unbearable.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Monday, June 11, 1923
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