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English: The pillow below the shoulders when lying on the back, and under the abdomen when lying face down, helps to overcome the fatigue posture and to correct round shoulders and cramped chest. It is especially helpful on a sagging bed.

Identifier: nutritiongrowthi00emer (find matches)
Title: Nutrition and growth in children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Emerson, William Robie Patten, 1869-
Subjects: Children Growth Child Nutrition
Publisher: New York, London : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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In addition to the night's rest, regular rest periods in the middle of the morning and the middle of the afternoon are recommended for all children who fail to gain when following the nutrition program, and whose malnutrition is found to be the result of overfatigue. These rest periods have the effect of shortening the periods of activity, and therefore preventing further fatigue, while the rest and sleep restore the waste of past activity. The rest periods also increase the child's power of food assimilation. Fatigue interferes with absorption, and the child will benefit in both appetite and digestion if he has a short rest before eating. The proper position for the rest periods is shown in Figure 16. The clothing should be loosened, the windows open, and the child should face away from the light. He should not be allowed to take either books or toys to bed with him. Children should be taught to rest even when not sleeping, although the regularity of the rest periods when faithfully followed seldom fails to induce sleep. Therest period should be for at least half an hour, but 20 minutes of complete rest are worth more than an hour spent tossing about in discomfort. The ability to sleep for short periods at any time is a habit that makes for health. In extreme cases, absolute rest in bed for several days may be the means of causing the first
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gain. In other instances, it will be better for the child to have breakfast in bed at his regular hour, and then continue to rest until 10 or 11 o'clock. He should not be allowed to sleep through his usual breakfast time, and thus lose the value of regular meals. During the early years of childhood, discretion should be used in story-telling at bedtime. At the age of four or five, the imagination is especially active, and exciting stories often affect the child painfully, causing fear of the dark, of unusual sounds, and of strangers. The child should go to bed happy and contented, under conditions that assure warmth and comfort, and with the distinct idea of going to sleep at once. As light is a powerful sensory stimulus, there should be no light in the sleeping room. It has been demonstrated that the depth of sleep is much greater during the dark nights of winter than during the lighter nights of summer.

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