[Sidenote: _Lost Calories_]

When you worry needlessly, notice how tense your muscles are. You are
exercising them all of the time and using hundreds of calories of
energy. You raise your blood pressure, the internal secretory glands may
overact (re-read what I have said about these glands in the fat
people), and thus many more calories are used. The intestinal secretions
do not flow so freely, you have indigestion and do not assimilate your
food, and thus hundreds more calories are lost.

It certainly is impossible to gain unless your food is assimilated.

[Sidenote: _Develop Poise_]

So the first thing you have to learn is this mental control and to
relax. Remember that word, relax. After you are better nourished your
nervous system will not be on hair-trigger tension, and it will be
easier for you.

[Sidenote: _No Pain In Matter; No Matter In Pain Why Worry?_]

If you are ill in mind or body, remember that it is natural to be well,
and that within your body nature has stored the most wonderful forces
which are always tending towards the normal, or health, if not
obstructed or hindered.

Nature sometimes needs help to stimulate those forces, or to reinforce
them, or to remove obstructions. This is where the physician comes in.
But you yourself can aid nature the most by realizing that _nature is
health and it is normal to be well_. By so doing, all of your organs