HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1943, Page 4

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

CUT DOWN THE PACE. A WARNING IN TIME. (By the Health Department.) One of the world’s leading medical authorities, Sir William Ostler, is credited with the epigram that the life of many a man has been saved by a heait attack. In other words, he meant that many a man who has thus been warned of a'weak heart might live for years, providing he watched his health and was careful not to place on his defective heart a bigger burden than it could stand. Many people living today have weak hearts, even damaged hearts, yet, by observing ordinary care, they are leading normal, happy lives. But the number of deaths from heart trouble among people in their fifties has grown alarmingly. and doctors put it down to the hectic t/mpo of modern living. Fatal heart disease, which can occur with appalling swiftness, and without warning, kidney disease, cerebral haemorrhage and apoplexy, all occasioned by hardened arteries arising from high blood pressure, are the main cause of these tragedies of degenerative disease. Medical men believe that if people stopped wearing out their-.nerves and

sapping their energy by the furious pace at which they drive themselves, there would be much fewer cases of high blood pressure. Their advice is summed up in five simple words, “Learn to take it easy.” In other words, .cut down the pace, and live healthier, happier and longer lives.