They were never considered high cinema, but mental hygiene films, a staple of the post-war American classroom, aspired to the lofty goal of shaping young minds in a time of rapidly changing mores and cold-war uncertainty.
Mental hygiene pictures were a staple of the American educational system throughout the quarter century following World War II.
Exterminating bedbugs is not a staple of Facebook chatter.Yet Ecolab's hygiene-oriented nerds now play a crucial role in industries ranging from hotels, hospitals and water supply to fracking, a method of extracting natural gas.
We must promote access to and awareness of better nutrition and hygiene through breast-feeding, healthy staples, hand-washing with soap, and therapeutic foods for malnourished children.
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Oral hygiene, however, has consistently been recognized as the staple and inescapable component of preventing gingivitis and also (although, debatably, to a relatively lesser degree) dental caries [ 3- 7].
The fluoridation of water and improved dental hygiene mean that cavities are no longer a childhood staple.
