Be kind to your stomach
Health poster with a large blue brush-stroke arrow and the headline 'Be kind to your stomach', pointing at a drawn man bent over with a hand to his mouth and another clutching his middle. The technique is faint: a discomfort image carries a plain instruction to choose food wisely and see a doctor, with a small leaflet panel 'Trouble in the midriff'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-458 (NAID 513928).
Text on the object
Federal Security Agency WH22-U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVIC[E] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944-O-587509] Be kind to your stomach CHOOSE FOOD AND DRINK WISELY IF STOMACH UPSET IS VIOLENT -SEE YOUR DOCTOR Trouble in the midriff * for more information read- [signature: illegible]
