FAT OR THIN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 7

FAT OR THIN

WHO'LL LIVE THE LONGER? Life Extension is the really up-to-date idea in New Vork to-day. Somo time ago a youiig Enslisliman— it is surprising how many JiiiKlishnun aro behind big schemes in .Amcrirra— went io the insurance companies with <i new proposal. Ho pointed out that it was to their definite financial aovantago to heln their subscribers to lengthen their lives, for tho looser the insured lived the more lho companies benefited. The insurance officials snw the reasonableness of tho idea, nnd the Life Extension Institute was fovmod, with exPreeidont Tuff; as its chairman, a hundred leading scientific m«n on its reference board, and a staff of ovor SflOfl cxaminine rhvsicians. Tho institute, necordins: to Mr. P. A. M'Konzip's description of it to the T./)nflOii "Dnilv Jlail," docs not claim to 1» a-philiinthropie orsanisation, but it c«n ha.rdlv he- called money-making, for it« fees nro only IS dollars (JJ3) a year It rives no medical treatment, but it tell-? vou tilt' truth about yourself/ AVhen vou become a member are fii'it put rhrotifrh ft cenrchinß «ind intenpivo phvsiciil examination by one of the institutn's doctors. Your ancestry, your nast record, and your present condition are minutely disseclotl. Your blood pressure, liinss. heart, brain and skin, vonr duels and Rlanos and lymphatic svstcin are brought under survey. Your blcod is examined, if nocessary, microscoDicallv nnd chcmicnlly. low aro Arnved. You feel at Hie end of the examination that you have almost been turned inside out. And then-here cornea the vital feature rif the .ulan—you aro told ■ tho whole truth about yourself. Yon are given first a nreliminary report, and then a full and miniib record. If there is anythinir irrone with you, you aro toln franlclv what it is. Your physical condition is evaded. You are Rent to your own doctor or a specialist, if necessary, and vou aro Riven (Mailed personal novico on vour mode of liviiiß, ihe correctiou of vour food habits, and the like. Once a ounrler certain chomioal examinations aro undertaken for you, These are compnred wifh tli,e results of previous fxaniiim(ion=, and at the first of nnyfhimj abnormal you are reexnmincd. Tho institute a«U β-s your eenoral health (,'uwe, and keeps in toucli wi'ii vou nil the t.imn. If there is an epidemic .yon tcccivc pereoi'.il advice lion- to avoid it If n hot well is sweeping over your citv, vou will find anion? your mornm? letters a series of hints as to what; you had liertcr do in order to fed tho least inconvenience from the 'beat. "I cannot find nnvt.hini; much Wio matter with you, J, said the doctor after he hH completed my examination. Thie ia who* (h< , doctors have In. toll mo't people. But if most men are orsMinally sound it is equally true tint most of us living incities are "rowing old He-fo-p our fnme A man of forty, tor insbnee, has on the onlv ha!f Hie vitnl resistance of twenty. We liyo in such n ,way that we are unduly liahlo to all kinds of infections, from colds to enTt Has been estimaled that in tlie United Slates over GflO.OflO people tjio «» veav from proventablo disease. Iftat l'nii (lho cases of sickness could Ijo avcid-P'l. , that the financial Ins from earnings n> , j off by preventable disease and -[lypmati'" ,, death amounts to iSnfl.flM.flJO a vwr, .' ■■'(•. that tho average man liver. 15 years lorthan ho do by rational obsfr.vanre of liefllth laws. Two of the common difficulties whi".ii tlio institute finds (mimi? avew/;e meii are postiiTe and weight. Most of iiskinu in cities slouch more or less. !h« I first Wiinß , wa have to <lo is to leant ir> j stand erect. •■ Laree numbers of people. partienliU-ly , men in midtlle life, weisb more than H""- I ought to weiffli. Peonle scarcely rraliei»; that ovor-wefehf. definiW.v lowers fli" chance of Inns life. Under W yea" of age Height doer- not mntter. Ft.i' wllipr n jjood thing than oWierwise, if not to great excess. ' But over 30 it hn» to bf wntciied. Tho man of 50 who is 101b. over the averjeo weift'it fouJiis heiphr lo.'os fl nor cent. iJ) his chaneffor lone lifo; while t.V n'ri'i who is 301b.,over Wie averago weight is 21 per cent. down. "A lean horeo for a lonpr race , is a motto justified by life insurance experience. The one thing that tlie institute friiw no!' to do is u> enconraee nonplo to tl'ir.l: too much about, themselves or tlieiv health. Tn its literature it drives home t'be one idea that i.li is your busine--« to keep yourself healthy ns. n. matter. of course, but not to be for ever dis.wtiiv your comlition. Find mil if von arc r>|i Tijrlili or not. "Find out lho best vrnv of keewins; yoursolf in the ton if eordilin-i and then .forget yourself. The w'eti'.dinnrian is ijho moil miserable of all n:cn.