The Business of Getting Well

All this talk about the downright rude behavior of our politicians debating the health care bill has me feeling ill! Makes me wish Bernarr MacFadden’s International Health Resort was still around. I found this little undated pamphlet in my pile of “flat things” while looking for a book jacket for something else. It has some […]

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1950: Sleep

I don’t know about you, but with this latest time change I’m having a heck of a time adjusting. I just don’t do well getting up when it is still dark out, and I am of course staying up way too late. What’s a girl to do? Why, dig up some sleep tips of course. […]

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1949: Correct Proportions

Someday I’ll do a comparison of all of the “average” or “ideal” weight charts, by age and height, in all of my books. I just stumbled across another one, a bit surprisingly in the Searchlight Homemaking Guide, revised in 1949 from an earlier 1937 edition published by Household Magazine. The chapter title, nestled among the […]

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1936: Oatmeal Porridge

Today, March 7, is National Cereal Day! I love cereal of all sorts, and love to mix cold cereals together for a unique combination. In winter time, though, we have a steady diet of blueberry oatmeal cooked overnight in the crockpot (trying it yourself? use steelcut oats and frozen blueberries). Top some maple syrup and […]

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