Experiments In Health
We cannot over-estimate the tremendous importance of habits. Analyze your daily routine. Find out its exact effect on you and your family. Do not be afraid to make this an¬alysis careful and searching in its methods; for your success or failure will depend on what you learn from such reasoning. You have doubtless fallen into certain bad habits. Most of us do, sooner or later; there are few exceptions. Sometimes these habits are serious. They assume the degree of dissipation which gradually destroys health and body.
No matter how much knowledge you may possess as to the care of the body, there is always more to learn. Every day presents its lessons, so more and more information is grad¬ually acquired.
Some people follow a rigorous routine. They never vary in the slightest degree. This is not always desirable. Do not be afraid to experiment. Do not thoughtlessly cast aside either old or new ideas. New ideas often result in changing one’s entire life and often bring information which saves health and sometimes life itself.
Habits master us, hold us down or build us up. We should especially endeavor to be sure the daily schedule within the household is definitely upbuilding. Is the diet everything that can be desired? Do you bring a keen appetite to meals? Do you recognize the necessity for thorough enjoyment and full mastication of your food? Are you fully master of your ac¬tions? Can you compel yourself to follow certain rules after you have been convinced that they are desirable? All these and many other questions are important for guiding one into profitable channels. It is therefore desirable to form good habits—those that tend to make one vital, vigorous, studious, enthusiastic, and ambitious.