Food Quality Important
Quoted from Basic Principles of Health by the late Dr. Henry Trautmann, M.D., Madison, Wisconsin: "It is far easier to grow your health than it is to restore it. As long as our agricultural practice concerns itself with wrong treatment of soils and as long as food processors busy themselves with providing foodless, residue foods, just so long will the American people be a poorly fed people. Food quantity must yield to food quality if health is to be preserved. Foods are only as good as the soils on which they have been raised. "

Doctor Trautmann felt that the vital amounts of daily requirements recommended were barely enough to put in a canary's eye! He was first to have vitamin C 500 mg. tablets for his patients' use. He helped start Natural Food Associates. Along with the name of the late Dr. Royal Lee, their names head the Trautmann-Lee Natural Foods Fund of Wisconsin Natural Food Associates.

Brain Power
Our brains are not fully grown at the end of our teens, at 40 or 80. Studies on laboratory animals suggest that the brain will continue to grow as long as the environment challenges and stimulates it. Our mental powers are vulnerable to an indifferent diet and they may wither through disuse, boredom, or a lack of self-confidence; use it or lose it.

You forget 99 percent of everything that enters your head. If every sense impression and thought stayed with you, your mind would soon become hopelessly cluttered. Relatively few older people become truly senile. Many cases can be traced to poor diet, drug reactions, confusion after hospitalization, low self-esteem, and society's indifference to the elderly. All these causes are reversible. Memory is a tool that becomes sharper with use.

The brain burns two-thirds of the body's glucose, is highly dependent on the blood for a steady supply of this fuel, day and night. To better maintain a constant level of blood sugar one should choose protein foods (meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, tofu and other soybean products). Eat protein snacks between meals rather than 2 or 3 big meals each day. Regular exercise is important to counteract low blood sugar. Also proper rest and enough sleep. -- How To Boost Your Brain Power by Roger B. Yepsen, Jr.

Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. These contain antioxidants that are substances that protect and nourish brain cells. -- DeForest Times Tribune, Dec. 9, 1999

Old Advice Still Good
If a man lacks physicians or doctors, he shall make three things his doctors or physicians and he will never need of more. The first of them is merry thought. The second is work in moderation. The third is good diet of pure foods and suitable drinks. -- Dame Juliana Berners, 1496

Modern Economics
I told a cousin that since he heats water atop a wood burning stove he is old fashioned efficient.

Too Dry
The air is so dry that your cats or dogs run away from you rather than be petted because of the huge static electricity shocks you have been giving them.

How About Hare Hair?
Human hair may be used as a houseplant compost ingredient. The plants respond to the 12% nitrogen content of the hair. Only untreated (not bleached, dyed, etc.) hair should be used. -- WMAD Radio, Jan. 4, 1994

Take Good Care
Sometime in my thirties I stopped at a barbershop for service. To make conversation the barber asked how I was. I replied with whatever was ailing me. He had observed that persons who never have anything wrong with their health, that when they become older they have serious trouble and may even pass away, whereas we who when younger but ailing must take care of ourselves and so outlive the others!

Dual Purpose Aid
Besides using an insulated hand mitt to protect a liquid container from breakage and keeping it cool in summer, also useful in colder weather to help keep liquids warm.

Icy Waling Aid
A regular long pole ice scraper with at least a 6 inch steel blade can double as a walking aid on icy slick surfaces.

Happiness Is Good
Happiness itself is good for you, no matter how you get there. In a study spanning 3 decades, Mayo Clinic researchers found that optimists live about 19 percent longer than pessimists.