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Editorial
April 8, 1937
Plentywood Herald
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana
What is this article about?
The editorial describes spring fever as a real condition caused by excess winter energy stores and heavy diet in mild weather, recommending lighter foods like salads and fruits, plus exercise, over tonics or rest.
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Spring Fever
Do you tire more quickly than usual? Does the beginning of the day find you almost as listless as the end of the preceding one? Do the challenges of your daily work lose their interest? Do the usual pleasures you enjoy become mere boredom?
If you register these and other similar symptoms you are but one of thousands who at this time of the year suffer what is commonly termed "spring fever."
And when we tell you that, don't scoff and say that spring fever is only a condition of the imagination, because latest information tells us that spring fever is very real though, in truth, it is not a fever.
It isn't a fever, nor is it laziness; you feel tired not because you lack energy but because you have too much accumulated energy; you don't need "tonics" for spring fever—your blood does not need "thinning" and you don't need more rest: you do need more exercise and a quick change of diet.
Insurance companies employ numberless statisticians to compile complicated tabulations of figures on the varied causes and conditions of life and death, but sometimes those fact jugglers turn their attention to more lively subjects. From one such company we recently received a bulletin of some good advice for spring fever sufferers.
In the first place, the sluggish feeling comes from the fact that the body is loaded up with a store of heavy energy-producing food elements such as are necessary to meet the rigors of winter. When mild weather comes, then, the body is like an automobile trying to operate in warm weather on a rich winter mixture.
Usually the individual continues for several weeks to eat as he did in winter, loading up the system with heat and energy producing foods and prolonging the clogged condition that induces the "let down" feeling commonly known as spring fever.
It is evident, then, that the blood does not need thinning and that most so-called spring tonics have little beneficial effects. The remedy is, instead, a change to warm weather diet—more salads, fruits and vegetables, less starches, fats and proteins—together with exercise to burn up the surplus of body energy.
In other words, if spring fever is upon you reach for the salad bowl, not the medicine bottle; get out and hit the golf ball a few, don't go home to "hit the hay."
Do you tire more quickly than usual? Does the beginning of the day find you almost as listless as the end of the preceding one? Do the challenges of your daily work lose their interest? Do the usual pleasures you enjoy become mere boredom?
If you register these and other similar symptoms you are but one of thousands who at this time of the year suffer what is commonly termed "spring fever."
And when we tell you that, don't scoff and say that spring fever is only a condition of the imagination, because latest information tells us that spring fever is very real though, in truth, it is not a fever.
It isn't a fever, nor is it laziness; you feel tired not because you lack energy but because you have too much accumulated energy; you don't need "tonics" for spring fever—your blood does not need "thinning" and you don't need more rest: you do need more exercise and a quick change of diet.
Insurance companies employ numberless statisticians to compile complicated tabulations of figures on the varied causes and conditions of life and death, but sometimes those fact jugglers turn their attention to more lively subjects. From one such company we recently received a bulletin of some good advice for spring fever sufferers.
In the first place, the sluggish feeling comes from the fact that the body is loaded up with a store of heavy energy-producing food elements such as are necessary to meet the rigors of winter. When mild weather comes, then, the body is like an automobile trying to operate in warm weather on a rich winter mixture.
Usually the individual continues for several weeks to eat as he did in winter, loading up the system with heat and energy producing foods and prolonging the clogged condition that induces the "let down" feeling commonly known as spring fever.
It is evident, then, that the blood does not need thinning and that most so-called spring tonics have little beneficial effects. The remedy is, instead, a change to warm weather diet—more salads, fruits and vegetables, less starches, fats and proteins—together with exercise to burn up the surplus of body energy.
In other words, if spring fever is upon you reach for the salad bowl, not the medicine bottle; get out and hit the golf ball a few, don't go home to "hit the hay."
What sub-type of article is it?
Science Or Medicine
What keywords are associated?
Spring Fever
Diet Change
Exercise
Health Advice
Winter Diet
Tonics Ineffective
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Overcoming Spring Fever With Diet And Exercise
Stance / Tone
Informative Advisory Against Tonics
Key Arguments
Spring Fever Is Real, Not Imaginary Or A Fever
Caused By Accumulated Winter Energy And Heavy Diet In Mild Weather
Body Like Car On Winter Fuel Mix In Spring
Continued Winter Eating Prolongs Sluggishness
Blood Doesn't Need Thinning; Tonics Ineffective
Remedy: Lighter Diet With Salads, Fruits, Vegetables; Reduce Starches, Fats, Proteins
Need Exercise To Burn Surplus Energy, Not More Rest