FIGHT FOR LUXURY

Shannon News, 1 July 1927, Page 1

FIGHT FOR LUXURY

Youth is burning out ita “human engine.” and it will take 50 years yet "before" the average man’s brain and physical being can catch up with progress,” in the opinion of Dr. Charles H. Mayo, the world-famous American surgeon.

Dr Mayo, at a public healtli meeting conducted by the American College of Surgeons, gave the following recipe for “growing old gracefully." 1. Begin taking care of yourself when young. 2. Have health examinations once a year. 3. Avoid excesses. 4. Develop early in life an avocation to maintain Interest In-flip Tfnajm

preferably along some line that brings you in contact with nature. •‘Man’s struggle to-day is not for existence, but for luxuries; and his methods of securing them are often criminal,” said Dr. Mayo. “Many to-day suffer from food intoxication (over-eating) and some from drink. “Much that we suffer to-day is because of man’s sudden rise in wealth and the control of energy more rapidly than he can rearrange his life to cope with it. “Mental and physical breakdowns from the pace, affecting the brain and alimentary tract, are seen everywhere and man becomes the prey of microbes before he is dead. “Within a period of thirty years we have doubled the proportion of insane to our population incfease.”