Happiness is like warmth. Even the coldest heart must melt if this warmth is allowed to penetrate for long enough. If whatever you do can somehow help your neighbour, the resulting happiness you receive will permeate your entire being. Whether you are a farmer, salesperson, housewife, office worker, doctor, lawyer, butcher, candlestick maker, or whatever, [...]

Whenever I travelled abroad to faraway places and had to watch how thoughtless and ignorant some people were in treating their surroundings, I felt pride in knowing that tidiness prevailed in my native land. Such actions upset and often repulsed me, and I would never have thought it possible for things to change so much [...]

It is certainly a sign of progress that babies are today given vegetable juices to supplement their usual gruels and milk food. I am sure that this is one reason why vitamin deficiencies are much rarer now than years ago. Infant mortality has also decreased considerably, and it is quite possible that better nutrition has [...]

What else is there to know about potatoes other than that they are tasty? That is about the extent of most people’s knowledge about the peculiar solanaceous plant we call potato and botanists call Solatium tuberosum. Because potatoes belong to the same family as the deadly nightshade, our forefathers had some rather unfortunate experiences with [...]

The great progress in civil aviation has made foreign travel easy and has brought us into close contact with people from other parts of the world, who visit us and are pleased when they can get their own food and fruit in our shops. Conversely, many of us venture out and travel to faraway places, [...]

Elephantiasis is transmitted by a mosquito. The female bites an infected person, sucks in the blood and transmits the parasite to a healthy person’s bloodstream by another bite. Once the parasites, which we could call minute worms, are in the human blood, they multiply into the millions, causing fever and extreme enlargement of the lymphatics. [...]

Stomach problems, while not the number one category of illness, have been on the increase. This is especially true in the United States, where people are in such a hurry all the time that they literally gulp down their meals, often not even taking time to sit down at a table because they do not [...]

In summary, I would like to stress that in cases of eczematous skin disorders the liver needs special attention and care. The same applies to the kidneys, which must be protected from exposure to damp and cold. Furthermore, take care that the skin does not come into contact with strong detergents, floor wax and other [...]

There are different forms of angina pectoris, the peculiar disease that produces something like heart spasms. It is caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the walls of the heart, which in turn induces oxygen starvation. The serious symptoms do not appear all at once, but increasing instances of acute heart cramps accompanied by [...]

Dried herbs and spices are used in the making of pot-pourri, the scented mixture of flowers, leaves, roots and aromatic spices used in those little pottery jars, and bags or sachets. Believe it or not, the name comes from the French pourrir, to rot, and is derived from the original method of manufacture, semi-dried material [...]