HOW TO LIVE LONG

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 4 November 1924, Page 2

HOW TO LIVE LONG

SOME SIMPLE MAXIMS

I have examined thousands of men with the one object in view, of cnabi ; ling them to live longer, says Dr. G. ■ : L. M'aylan, professor of physical edu--1 : cation at the Columbia University, in ' the “American Magazine.” I never yet have encountered a- man! whose habits of living were so perfect that he could' not improve them, and thus add years to his term of existence. • The first twenty years of a man’s life had a tremendous hearing on the length of it; for during that time habits of living and exercise are formed, and it is lmrd to change them after majority. Luckily for most of ns children have naturally good habits. It is as natural for them to run, romp, and play, as it is to breathe. They do not as a rule over-cat, except sweets. They sleep- deeply and rcstfiifly. It is between! the ages of twenty and forty—• after the individual has come into full control of himself, as it were —that lie determines to a large extent the length of his life. If he reach'i- twenty with sound health it is chiefly “up to him” whether he reaches eighty, or whether be shuffles off at sixty or earlier. The. rules to ho followed are simplicity itself; the difficulty lies in following them without exemption. To be wholly effective they must become habits. Fat enough —but not too much; Play enough—hut not too much; Sleep enough ; 5 Work ms hard as you please; Don’t work when you should he sleeping, playing, or eating; j _ Don t worry. j The strong, healthy man who has hardly known an ache or a< pain all Ills life car.!, as lie says proudly, oat tacks and digest them. Ha tries to outwalk, outrun, outlift, and outlast everyone else, because he is proud of his strength, and likes to exhibit it. When he. takes a cold he sniffs, and says it doesn’t amount to anything. A few lurking pneumonia genre find 1 lodgement in his throat and begin, to spread. Within a few days lie has 1 a temperature of 103 or 104, and lie goes to the office just the same, sawing that he isn’t going to let a, little thing, like a eojd knock him out. Withj-forty-eight hours the poison ?fk>ods liis overworked heart —and it is flowers for him. This doe'' not mean that you should always be thinking about your health. That it the most dangerous kind of ; worry. You should find wlm.t you can do, and what you can’t; what food sigrees with you and what dosen’t. Having once' intelligently laid, out | your course of living, stick to it, and j don’t keep fussing about your health.