MY BODY TEMPLE

CONTENTS

1- Introducing the Body (this Page)

2- Stomach & Digestion

3 - Heart & Blood

4 - More Heart & Kidneys

5 - Lungs

6 - Your Amazing Skin

7 -Bones & Muscles

8 - More Muscles, Brain & Nerves

9 - Brain, Ears & Eyes

You have all seen some very beautiful houses. Perhaps they were made of brick or stone, with fine porches, having around them tall shade trees, smooth lawns, pretty flower-beds, walks, and sparkling fountains.

If you visit a nice house, you find that the inside of the house is even more beautiful than the outside. There are nice chairs and sofas in the rooms, rich carpets and rugs on the floors, fine mirrors and beautiful pictures upon the walls-everything one could wish to have in a house. Do you not think such a house nice to live in?

Each of us has a house of his own which is far more wonderful than the best palace ever built. It is not a very large house. It has just room enough in it for one person. This house, which belongs to each one of us, is called our body.

Do you know what a machine is? Men make machines to help them work and to do many useful things. A wheel­barrow or a wagon is a machine to carry loads. A sewing-machine helps to make garments for us to wear. Clocks and watches are machines for keeping time.

A wheelbarrow has a box to carry things in, two handles to hold, and a wheel for rolling it along. Some machines, like wheelbarrows and wagons, have few parts, and it is very easy for us to learn how they work. But there are other machines, like watches and sewing machines, which have many different parts, and it is harder to learn all about them and what they do.

In some ways the body is more like a machine than a house. It has many different parts to do a great many things. We see with our eyes, hear with our ears, walk with our legs and feet, and do many things with our hands. If you have ever seen the inside of a watch or a clock you know how many curious little wheels it has. And yet a watch or a clock can only do one thing, and that is to tell us the time. The body has many more parts than a watch, so the body can do many more things than a watch.

It is more difficult, too, to learn about the body than about a watch. If we want to know all about a machine and how it works, we must study all its different parts and learn how they are put together, and what each part does. Then, if we want the machine to work well and to last a long time, we must know how to use it and how to take proper care of it. Do you think your watch would keep time well if you don’t wind it, or break its wheels?

It is just the same with the human machine we call the body. We must learn its parts, and what they are for, how they are made, how they are put together, and how they work. Then we must learn how to take proper care of the body, so that its parts will be able to work well and last a long time.

Each part of the body that is made to do some special kind of work is called an organ. The eye, the ear, the nose, a hand, an arm or any part of the body that does something, is an organ.

The study of the parts of the body and how they are put together is anatomy (a­nat' -o-my). The study of what each part of the body does, is physiology (phys-i-ol' -o-gy). The study of how to take care of the body is hygiene (hy-jeen).   =^..^=

OUTSIDE-

What do we call the main part of a tree? The trunk, you say. The main part of the body is also called its trunk. There are two arms and two legs growing out of the human trunk. The branches of a tree we call limbs, and so we call the arms and legs limbs. We sometimes call the arms the upper extremities, and the legs the lower extremities. At the top of the trunk is the head.

Now let us look at these different parts. As we read the name of each part, let’s touch that part which is named. We will begin with the head. The chief parts of the head are the skull and the face. The forehead, the temples, the cheeks, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, and the chin are parts of the face.

The chief parts of the trunk are the chest, the abdomen (ab' -do-men), and the backbone. The head is joined to the trunk by the neck.

Each arm has a shoulder, upper arm, fore­arm, wrist, and hand. The fingers are a part of the hand.

Each leg has a hip, thigh, lower leg, ankle, and foot. The toes are a part of the foot.

Our whole body is covered with something as soft and smooth as the finest silk. It is the skin. What is it that grows from the skin on our head? And what at the ends of our fingers and toes? We’ll learn more about the skin, the hair, and the nails in another lesson.

The body has two sides, the right side and the left side, which are alike. We have two eyes, two ears, two arms, etc. We have one nose, one mouth, and one chin, but each of these or­gans has two halves, which are alike.

INSIDE-

How does the inside of the body look? What is in the skull? What is in the chest? What is in the abdomen? Why do we eat and drink? Why do we become hungry and thirsty? What makes us tired and sleepy? How do we keep warm? Why do we breathe? How do we grow? How do we move about? How do we talk, laugh, and sing? How do we see, hear, feel, taste, and smell? How do we remember, think, and reason? All these, and a great many more interesting questions, you will find answered in the following lessons.

When we study the inside of the body, we begin to understand how wonderfully we are made. We cannot all see the inside of the body, and it is not necessary that we should do so. Many learned men have spent their whole lives in seeking to find out all about our bodies and the bodies of various animals.

If you take hold of your arm, it seems soft on the outside; and if you press upon it, you will feel something hard inside. The soft part is called flesh. The hard part is called bone.

All the bones of an ani­mal, placed properly together, have nearly the shape of the body, and are called the skeleton (skel' -e-ton). The skeleton forms the framework of the body, just as the heavy tim­bers of a house form its framework. It supports all the parts.

The bony part of the head is called the skull. In the skull is a hollow place or chamber. You know that a bank often has a safe in which is kept money, important papers, and other valuable things. The chamber in the skull is the safe, of the body. It has strong, tough walls of bone, and contains the brain. The brain is the most important and also the most tender and delicate organ in the whole body. This is why it is so carefully guarded from injury.

The framework of the back is called the backbone. This is not a single bone, but a row of bones arranged one above another. Each bone has a hole through it, about as large as one of your fingers. A large branch from the brain, called the spinal cord, runs down through the middle of the backbone, so that the separate bones look as if they were strung on the spinal cord, like beads on a string.

The trunk of the body, like the skull, is hollow. Its walls are formed partly by the backbone and the ribs and partly by flesh. A fleshy wall divides the hollow of the trunk into two parts, an upper chamber called the chest, and a lower called the abdomen.

The chest contains a pair of organs called the lungs, with which we breathe. It also contains something, which we can feel beating at the left side. This is the heart. The heart lies between the two lungs, and a little to the left side.

In the abdomen are some very wonderful organs that do dif­ferent kinds of work for the body. Among them are the stomach, the bowels, and the liver. There are, also, other organs whose names we shall learn when we come to study them.

We have only begun to study the beautiful house in which we live, and yet have we not learned enough to show us how great and wise is the Creator who made us and all the wonderful machinery within our bodies? If someone gave you a beauti­ful present, would you treat it carelessly and spoil it, or would you take good care of it and keep it nice as long as possible? We should also take care of our bodies to keep them in the perfect and beautiful condition which our kind and good Creator gave them to us.  =^..^=

We all know that if we do not eat we will lose weight and become very weak. Did you ever think how much one eats in the course of a lifetime? Let's see if we can figure it out. How much do you suppose a boy eats in a day? Let us say two pounds. How much does he eat in a year? There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year; 365 multiplied by 2 equals 730. So a boy eats a good many times his own weight in a year. How much would a person eat in fifty years?

Our bodies are made of what we eat. If we eat bad food, our bodies will be made out of poor material and will not able to work or play well. So we need to learn about our foods and know what things are good for us to eat, and what will do us harm.

Foods are those substances that nourish the body and keep it in good working order. People get foods from both animals and plants. All food really comes from plants, for those animals some people use as food, live on the plants, which they eat. For example, the ox and the cow eat grass and furnish people with beef and milk. Chickens eat corn, and other grains, and supply eggs and meat also.

The principal animal foods are milk, cheese, eggs, and flesh-meat like ­beef, (cows) mutton, (sheep) pork, (pigs) fish, fowl, (Chicken and Turkey) and wild game.

More kinds of food comes from plants than from animals. Most plant foods are included in three classes -fruits, grains, and vegetables. Fruits are the fleshy parts of plants which contain the seeds. Our most common fruits are apples, bananas, melons, pears, peaches, plums, grapes, cherries, and nuts.

The seeds of grass-like plants are called grains; we have wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.  Some seeds grow in pods; such as peas and beans, which are a bit like grains. We also have sunflower seeds which grow in a flower-head.

We eat the leaves, stems, or roots of some plants, as cabbages, celery, turnips, and potatoes. Foods of this kind are called vegetables.

There are things, which, if we eat or drink them, will make us sick or do us harm. These are called poisons. Only food that is pure and free from poison is good or safe for us to use.

 There are things known as narcotics and stimulants; which, have bad effects on our body, and are really poisons. Tobacco, opium, alcohol, and cocaine are really poisons. People have died from using them. We’ll learn more about tobacco and alcohol later.

People eat things that are not good for them; they do not stop to think if what they eat is good for them or harmful. Without knowing it sometimes, we eat harmful things. We should try to learn what is good to eat and what is not, and be very careful not to eat anything harmful.

“Diseased” mean to be sick. Ani­mals are often sick or diseased. In fact because of the cruel way the poor birds and animals people eat, are fed and treated these days, it is almost impossible for them not to be diseased! The Spirit of Prophecy tells us that in our days animal products are not safe to use because of this.

Pork, the flesh of the pig, is said by the Bible to be ‘unclean’ and unfit for food. The same with lobsters and sea-food. These animals are natures garbage eaters- we are not to eat the garbage eaters.

Food that is spoiled, or stale, musty, or moldy, should not be eaten as it can make you very sick. People often get sick or even die of ‘food-poisoning’ when they eat foods, especially containing animal products that have stood in a warm place or not been carefully cooked. Germs in these foods grow and multiply and harm the body when eaten. Plain fruits, grains and vegetables are much less likely to contain hidden germs like that.

Condiments and seasonings are things people use on their food to change the flavor. They are not foods, and don’t nourish us. Many of them are harmful to our bodies.

Mustard, black pepper, hot pepper sauce, ketchup, cinnamon and other spices all are ir­ritating. If we put mustard upon the skin, it will make the skin red, and even blister it. If we get a pepper in our eye, it hurts and makes it very red and inflamed. When we put these things into our stomach, its lining becomes red and irritated, just as our skin or eye does. Vinegar is bad for our liver and stops food from digesting right.

God put into our foods very nice flavors and we can learn to enjoy eating them the way he made them. It is far better not to use harmful condiments. There are good condiments we can use freely; things like lemon or lime juice, onion or garlic, and mild seasoning herbs.

Tobacco comes from a plant with long, broad leaves that are dried and then rolled up into cigars, ground into snuff, shredded into cigarettes, or prepared for chewing. Tobacco makes people sick when they first begin to use it; for it contains a very deadly poison called nicotine, as well as many other harmful things. Tobacco will quickly kill a cat or a dog. A boy once gave a piece of tobacco to a monkey, which swallowed it not knowing what a bad thing it was. The monkey soon died.

Doctors have noticed the bad effects that come from using tobacco, it will especially do great harm to boys and girls! It makes them puny and weak, so they can’t grow up into strong and useful people. No one should use it or go where people are smoking it. If tobacco is not good for monkeys, it is not good for boys and girls, or grown-ups either!! -. =^..^=