How to Postpone Old Age. A LONDON PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 38, 11 February 1899, Page 1

How to Postpone Old Age. A LONDON PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE.

Dr W. Kinnear claims that old age can be postponed by avoiding food in which c<i,ithy salts abound. He says in the ' Humanitarian ' ; ' Anatonnonl experiment and investigation show that the chief chaiacteii&tics of oW age are the deposits of earthy matter of a gelatinous, nbiinous character m the human system. Carbonate and phosphate of lime, mixed with other salts of a calcareous nature, have been found to furnish the greater part of these earthy deposits. As observation shows, man begins in a gelatinous condition ; he ends m an osseous or bony one — soft m infancy, hard m old age. By gradual change m the long space of years the ossification comes on ; but. after middle life is passed, a more marked development of the ossific character takes place. Of course these eaithy deposits, which affect all the physical organs, naturally interfere with then- functions, Paitial ossification of the heart produces the imperfect circulation of the blood which affects the aged. "When the aperies are clogged with calcareous matter there is interference with en dilation, upqn which nutrition depends. Without nutrition there is no repair of the body. ' None of these things interfere with nutation and circulation in earlier years. The reparation of the physical system, as eveiy one ought to know, depends on this hne balance. In faGt the whole change is merely a slow f steady accumulation of enlcaieous deposits m the system. When these become excessive and resist expulsion they cause the stiffness and dryness of old ago. Entire blockage of the functions of the body js then a matter of time ; the refuse matter deposited by the blood in its constant passage through the'system stops the delicate and exquisite machinery which we call life. This is death. It has bepn pioved by analysis that human blood contains compounds of hnie, magnesia mid iron. In the blood itself are thug contained the earth gaits. In early life they aie thrown pit. Age has not the power to do it. "Pence, as blood ia produced by assimilation of the food we eat, to this food we must look for the earthy acpumulatjons which in time block up the system and bring pn pld age. Almost everything we eat contains more or less of these elements for destioymg life, by means of calcareous salts deposited by the allnourishingblood. Careful selection, how^ ever can enable us to avoid the worst of them. 4To 6um up : avoid all foods rich in the earth spils, use much fruit, especially juicy, uncooked apples, and take daily two or three tumblerfuls pf distilled water with about ten or fifteen drops of diluted phosphoric acid in each glassful. Thus will our days be prolonged, old age postponed and health insured.'

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