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Show Dont Be Out Of Sorts -y Get Your, Liver, Busy . . ... ' Eat Plenty of Fruit- (? X r EATING FOR YOUR HEALTH (GF Many Foods are Harmful to Some p Persons Who Can Use Diet SkL mr and Exercise to Cor- ; rect the Trouble. 1 BY EDNA EG AN. Ig"j"fl AS every one been telling you 1 1 II kflW grouchy and out of sorts E-J you are" If so, don't be piqued because your friend has given you this information, but feel grateful for the tip Then set to work to get your liver busy, for quite likely Its Inactivity Is at the bottom of your trouble. But don't blame your liver for not doing its work. Ten chances to one, you have been giving it too much to do. The thing for you to do now is to put it into proper working order. First of all, you must eliminate cer-lain cer-lain kinds of foods from your diet. Generally speaking you should eat no sweets Cereals may be eaten without with-out sugar, or with the merest suggestion sugges-tion of sugar; no sweet puddings or cakes; no pies, and, most important of all, no candy or ice cream. Use very little butter on your bread, potatoes, etc., and give up gravies for a time. Eat no hard sauces, butter dressings or fat meats. It may seem difficult to give up these things, but the abstinence absti-nence is well worth while when you think what it will do for your complexion com-plexion and for your general health These foods aro all very well when eaten moderately that is, kept In their right proportion to ther food elements. ele-ments. An undue amount of fats and sweets imposed on the liver means that the complexion will become yellow, yel-low, the ecs muddy and the general disposition soured. In your campaign to remedy conditions condi-tions first of all form the habit of drinking the Juice of half a lemon in a glass of cold or hot water every morning morn-ing about half an hour before breakfast. break-fast. Use no sugar in the lemon and water. See to It that eight glasses of water are drunk during the day, but take none of them at mealtime. Make it a rule to eat a generous quantity of fruit during the day. Green vegetables should be on every menu. Give up tea and coffee. If you must drink something with your meals, let it be a cup of hot water. Exercise will do much to get the liver Into working order. A very splendid splen-did exercise for the purpoee Is to stand with hands on hips. Take a deep breath wbilo rising slowly from the ground on the toes. Then lower tho body, still keeping on the toes, until a squatting position Is reached, keeping keep-ing the body stiffly erect Raise tho bodj tn a standing position and repeat Go through these movements five times at first and then increase the number every day. Another helpful exercise is to stand erect with the heels together. Raise the left arm and reach as though you were trying to touch something just above the fingertips. Keep the elbow straight. While doing this, reach down with the right arm, as if attempting to touch the .floor. Reverse the movement move-ment quickly raising the right arm by swinging it out in front and up, without with-out bending the elbow, stretching it upward, up-ward, at the same time lowering the left arm by swinging it out and down, with the elbow stiff, and stretching It downward Keep this motion up for five minutes, doing the work quickly. A third exercise is to stand erect and raise both hands aB far toward the ceiling as possible Then bring them down and touch the floor with the palms of the hands without bending the knees. This exercise will not only stir up the liver but it will do much to reduce tho abdomen and Induce suppleness. sup-pleness. It, along with the other exercises, ex-ercises, will relieve constipation. Persons engaged in sedentary positions posi-tions are more apt to have liver trouble trou-ble than those employed In active work. You can, therefore, understand why I never miss an opportunity to impress im-press upon the stenographer the saleswoman, sales-woman, the clerk, etc., the Importance of walking to and from work whenever when-ever it is possible to do so. A verv uirm.it. . , . ,v. uwuuei in wnieo to relievo the uncomfortable feeling caused by the iuactive'liver is to massage mas-sage the body in tho region of the liver for ten minutes or more. The liver Is s.tuated at tho right side of the body, just about at the waist line. 0 ; i ' I 7?77 Mirjvf-er'.M3s-s-3c'e ; 4 Zxerase for Fifteen Minuter D&iTy. |