Archive for September, 2008

Smoking and your stature

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

In the opinion of a physiologist of Chicago, tobacco contains nicotine, which is so poisonous that if 1/400 oz. of it is injected into the blood of a man, he will die. One third part of this quantity is always present in each cigarette. The heartbeat increases due to nicotine. The heart of a smoker has to beat 30,000 times in twenty-four hours. “From this it is gathered that nicotine is a poisonous substance. Due to constant smoking slow poison accumulates in the body. The lungs are consequently affected and digestion is also disturbed. The rickets of the chest increase and memory is also affected.

Warnings have been given against smoking, from time to time, in the various spheres of society. But the smokers laugh at these warnings and do not care for them. They do not think them to be worthy of consideration. In the buses and frowns we often find it written: ‘SMOKING PROHIBITED’. Even in offices, cinema halls and factories and also at places of public interest, such a prohibition is notified. You should have thought over the reasons for the same. The main reason underlying this warning seems to be the need for protection from fire. There is, however, another reason, and it is this that smoking is considered to be anti-religious and anti-moral in certain places.
Besides this, those people who do not smoke find faults and faults alone in smoking, while those who smoke, dwell upon its need and point out that it creates in them a mood (to work) and helps clear their bowels.

But here we are not concerned with the other advantages or disadvantages of cigarettes. We only want to know whether cigarette smoking is at all concerned with the increase or decrease of our stature.
We are not to analyze here the cigarettes scientifically and to put up before you a long list of poisons found in them and to startle you thereby. We only want to state briefly that the cigarettes contain certain poisonous elements, which very much hinder the development of the body, particularly during adolescence. Smoking not only badly affects the lungs of a person, but there is always a fear of ‘cancer’ and the growth of the stature is also retarded. This is the conclusion which is derived from the latest scientific researches. All the scientists also agree with the inference that the nicotine present in cigarettes is very much harmful for health.-Hence the people who want to increase their height are advised to get rid of this habit as early as possible.

What should the guardians do?

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

It is the duty of parents and guardians to see that during childhood, the development of a child is taking place correctly. If they find that the size of the body of the child is not growing properly, they should take care to see that the child does not lie in a small cradle or in a small perambulator in an uncomfortable position. On the contrary, the child should be made to lie on the bed in the open or in a big perambulator, where it can stretch its hands and legs properly. The growing, child should get an opportunity of lying and playing freely on green grass under the sun and the blue sky.
Some parents make their children sleep on a single bed. All the parts of their body do not get an opportunity of developing properly, when children sleep together on one bed. Consequently they become short-statured. Hence the children should be made to sleep SEPARATELY ON DIFFERENT BEDS.

The foundation of one’s stature is laid in childhood. The child can grow properly during its childhood under the supervision of it parents. The child whose development takes place properly in the beginning, grows into a tall and well-built adult. It can, therefore, be inferred that if the good, the attentive and the educated parents take proper care, their offsprings can also grow into well-built and tall adults.
Undoubtedly, all the parents want that their children may become tall and posses an attractive personality. But only those parents can achieve their goal, who can back their desires with the right type of “efforts. And what is this efforts?

You may ask a hundred times as to what is this effort, but our reply will be one and “the same. While the child is in the growing stage, take every possible care to bring it up properly. Put your child in the open on a mat and afford it an opportunity to move its hands and legs freely, while lying on its back.
If the ground on which the child is lying down is hard and even, it will be able to do bodily exercise by moving its hands and legs. Thus while it grows into an adult, its body will become, proportionate, soft and modifiable.

On the contrary, several mothers, out of excessive affection, make their children sleep on a bed having thick cushion. Some of them think that the cushion is a sign of their affluent economic condition and assume that as their child is one in a million, why should it be made to suffer any trouble’-

And so they make their children sleep on a bed having thick cushions, in an uncomfortable position. You can very easily imagine the consequences.

Yes, you have correctly guessed—the child cannot develop properly. Even when the child has grown up, its bod. remains under-developed.