Counsels on Health

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• Preface
• Preface to the second edition
• Section 1—The World’s Need
• Section 2—Essentials to Health
• Section 3—Diet and Health
• Section 4—Outdoor Life and Physical Activity
  • The Example of Christ
  • Nature a Lesson Book
  • In the Country
  • The Source of Healing
  • The Value of Outdoor Life
    • Nature, God’s Physician
    • Healthful Exercise Will Work Miracles
    • A Small Country Sanitarium
    • Living Object Lessons
  • Exercise, Air, and Sunlight
  • The Original Plan
  • Close Confinement at School
    • Ignorance of Nature’s Requirements
    • Children Injured by Too Much Study
  • Simpler Methods
  • A Proper Balance of Physical and Mental Labor
  • The Results of Physical Inaction
    • Inordinate Study
    • Indolence Accursed
  • Physical Culture
    • Parties of Pleasure
    • Outdoor Occupations
    • A Safeguard Against Evil
  • Health and Efficiency
  • Periods of Relaxation
  • Sunlight in the Home
  • Prohibited Amusements
  • Exercise as a Restorer
  • Walking for Exercise
  • The Evils of Inactivity
  • Open the Windows of the Soul
• Section 5—Sanitariums—Their Objects and Aims
• Section 6—Successful Institutional Work
• Section 7—The Christian Physician
• Section 8—Nurses and Helpers
• Section 9—Teaching Health Principles
• Section 10—Health Food Work
• Section 11—Medical Missionary Work
• Section 12—Ensamples to the Flock
• Section 13—Holiness of Life