No, Science Admits, But|
Life Expectancy Can
Be Raised
By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Since the world began man
have looked for the Fountain
of Youth;
chance that man's visit here be-
low may be lengthened.
Foremost pioneers in this
brate Life Insurance week. The
combined mass of statistics
gathered by these firms during
the past century has given
America an amazingly accu-
erage man can expect to live,
and what he can do to live
longer.
These figures, linked with re-
ports of sensational medical de-
velopments, today give John
Public good reason to believe
he will live longer than his
great-grandfather. He may
even dream of the day when
science can give him new
mechanism to replace his de-
caying vital organs.
But artificial hearts are
flimsy and intangible. A more
startling fact
has given the United States
since the American Revolution. A
child born 150 years ago could ex-
pect to live from 30 to 35 years,
while seven years ago the newborn
infant had a life expectancy
to 63 years—a girl baby four years
longer than a boy.
Thus, in 150 years, the
span of life has been boosted
years!
Joint Fight on Death.
No single factor is responsible.
Man, though selfish in his instinct
for self preservation, has co-operat-
ed with other men whom he knew
could help cope with the problem of
premature death. Scientific work-
ers looked to insurance compa-
nies for figures showing what causes
death. Little tality facts
were excavated om the mire of
superstitious centuries, and erased.
Cities, states and the gov-
ernment co-operated I
hazards.
Figures from the United
public health service reveal that a
good way to live longer to be
born in North or South Dakota, Kan-
sas or Oklahoma—and to stay there
Statistics compiled through the
years prove that expectation of life
in those states is almost 10 per cent
greater than for the nation as a
whole. As a second choice the seek-
er after a long lifé might pick Wash-
ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa,
ri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama
or Mississippi.
100-Year Goal.
The term ‘‘span of life”
fusing.
has not changed through the cen-
turies.
average
25
the
known mor
fy
it
federal
in
States
is
is con-
in New York city today. The span,
or maximum average life, is about
100 years.
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showed 3,964 persons who
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Death Rate
per 100,000
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Death Rate
per 100,000
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Communicable diseases
the fig-
ure is open to question because
nearly 2,500 of these were colored
people who simply ‘‘guessed’’
ages.
If 100 years is the maximum av-
erage, it offers a far-away
scientists who have thus
far in-
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der five headings. Each is well
known but will bear repetition:
Fresh Air and Exercise—Fresh
air is the largest single element in
the pre servation of health Win-
dows of the sleeping room should al-
ways be opened to admit it freely.
the average only 10
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ry +
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To increase
years is a
would necessitat
removal of the
sponsible for juve
ments causing u
be strangled. Tuberculcsis
young people, communic
eases—and especially venereal dis-
eases—would be stamped out,
advances in psychiatry would elim
nate the menace of suicide
this, and our life expectancy
be raised a scant 10 years!
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task
eases now re-
mortality
ant deaths
lie
able dis-
would
2,000 Years of Progress.
No forward stride can be expected
overnight. Expectation of life has
been increasing slowly for almost
more fortunate than Roman infants
day who could look for-
ward to only 20 or 25 years on earth.
Insurance companies are both sel-
fish and benevolent in their cam-
increase longevity. The
fact remains that every firm now-
adays takes a deep interest in its
policy holders’ personal health.
inations and distribute literature to
help its customers get healthy and
stay healthy.
No definite set of health rules can
But physi-
cians agree that a long life is en-
couraged by following certain gen-
They may be placed un-
GAS FOR PUMP-
ING BLOOD
ENTERS HERE
RHYTHM
REGULATED
ORGAN KEPT
ALIVE HERE
women should take special care to
exercise daily.
Food and Diet—Drink of
ay be an abun
the waste
3, skin and
, Breen veget
wheat bread and mill
diet and
meat,
plenty
dant
prod-
kid-
ables
Vary
avoid an excess of
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at ages over
water
wailel
40
Sleep—Some people require more
sleep than others, but few keep
in the best of health with less than
es pec ally
an
Mental Attitude—Everyone who
wishes to keep well and live to old
age should persist in a cheerful
view of life and prohibit worry so
far as possible
Temperance—Excess use of alco-
hol definitely increases susceptibil-
General scientific advances in the
battle for longevity have been made
without fanfare. But occasionally
has come a discovery whose poten-
tialities startle mankind. One of
these is the testimony given by Dr.
Cannon, distinguished
British physician and psychiatrist
who went to the Far East investigat-
ing supernormal phenomena. He
gained an audience with the sup-
unapproachable Grand
man ever beheld.
Tibetian Black Magic.
He reported a coffin containing
At “dead”
advanced to
the throne, bowed, and retreated
to his coffin where he apparently
became lifeless again. Dr. Cannon
word of command the
dead. But the Lama assured him
in another seven years the
That was black magic, but there
“artificial heart’” recently
Charles A. Lind-
bergh in collaboration with Dr.
Alexis Carrel. Briefly, the heart is
known as a “perfusion’’ pump made
entirely of glass in which the only
moving parts are the valves and the
gas and the fluid which sustain life
in the organ under observation.
Can such an artificial pump be
grafted to the human being, replac-
ing a natural heart that will no
longer function? If possible, it might
postpone “death for years, though
men suggest that the
would often prove too much for any
robot heart to overcome.
Many other experiments of this
nature have been revealed recently.
At the University of Minnesota heart
and lungs are being kept alive 24
hours after removal, in a dry air-
tight vessel immersed in water to
maintain an even temperature! Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania scientists
are working on a glass stomach
which would {faithfully enact the
performances of natural organs.
Such things are done in the name
of health, but in the last analysis
there can be no escaping the truth—
man is working to increase his days
on earth!
© Western Newspaper Union.
New York City.
On every side we hear
acid mouth, acidosis.
ter of it.
They confuse gastric acidity
—which is entirely normal,
for the healthy stomach is al-
ways strongly acid—with the
potential acidity of
which leave an acid residue fol-
lowing digestion. And many of
them are convinced that they
should take drastic steps to over-
come the danger of acidosis.
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The Vogue of Acidosis
There are fashions in disease,
just as in dress, home furnishings
and automobiles.
Ten years ago, we
heard much about
the evils of auto-
intoxication, and it
acid headaches,
most adults fancy themselves
realized
ad been
fore people
that they h
misled by the ex-
treme claims of
those who had
rem
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Friends cau-
some sort
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now it is acidosis that i
talked of complaint
tion one another against
that food, with the mistaken idea
that it causes or aggravates
acid condition. Food fa
frightened thousands
ing that
by mixing various
an
ddists hat
acidosis i
Health Endangered
Indeed, we have come to a point
where the fear of a so-called acid
which indicate the possibility
real trouble unless the American
people get the true facts and put
aside these foolish delusions,
Physiologists believe that fear
and worry have a detrimental ef-
fect on digestion, and, in turn, on
the general health. Thus eating
meals in constant fear of acidity
may upset the digestion and bring
about the very symptoms that you
are trying to avoid. One well
known authority contends that
perhaps 90 per cent of digestive
distress, attributed to the kind or
combinations of food eaten, is ac-
tually due to unfavorable mental
or emotional states,
causes such
when fatigued, or consuming at
one meal too many foods that are
difficult to digest. It, therefore,
becomes apparent that thousands
of people are contributing to their
own discomfort as a result of fear,
ignorance, or a blind belief in mis-
leading claims which are opposed
to scientific facts.
A
Acidosis Uncommon
The danger is not from acidosis,
but from the fear of this bugbear,
and from self medication in the be-
lief that certain remedies are re.
quired to overcome a fancied con-
Send for This
FREE CHART
Showing Which Foods Are
Acid and Which Alkaline
sees
( ) NE of the principles in planning
a balanced diet is to include at
least enough alkaline, or base-form.
ing foods, to balance the acidform-
ing foods,
To help you distinguish the foods
that belong in each group, C. Hous
ton Goudiss offers to send a free
chart listing the principal acid-ash
and alkaline-ash foods. Address C.
Houston Goudiss, 6 East 39th St,
New York City.
dition. For
amount of acid produced
tabolism, the blood normally
mains remarkably constant
due to a
efficient buffer system.
Perhaps you wonder, if this is
so, why doctors and dietitians talk
so much about the id-base bal-
ance,
spite of the large
me-
re.
and
highly
in
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The Acid-Base Balance
To understand this phrase, you
must know that every food leaves
an ash when burned in the body,
just as ashes remain when coal or
wood is burned in a furnace. In
the body, the ash cons of valu-
able minerals which required
in to maintain
timal health.
Some foods, such as meat, fish,
eggs and cereals, leave an acid
ash because the predominating
minerals are phosphorus, chlor
ine and sulphur. Other foods,
chiefly milk and most fruits and
vegetables, leave an alkaline ash
because the remaining minerals
are principally calcium, magne-
potassium and sodium.
These are the base-forming foods.
the alkal
ists
are
large amounts
and
Cannot Trust Your Tongue
The sense of taste cannot be re-
lied upon as a guide in determin-
ing which foods are acid and
which alkaline. For example, ce-
reals, which are bland to the
taste, have an acid reaction fol-
lowing digestion. Bread, likewise,
is acid forming, although you
would not suspect that fact from
its taste. On the other hand, po-
tatoes, though somewhat lar
to bread in flavor and food value,
are one of our most valuable alka.
line foods, and dried lima beans
are the most highly alkaline of
any food known.
If it seems curious that such
bland foods should have an acid
ash, you may find it even harder
to believe that oranges, lemons,
grapefruit, peaches and tomatoes,
which taste acid in the mouth,
leave an alkaline ash following
digestion. But the fact is that the
body performs a clever bit of
simil
Cervantes was fifty-eight when
the first part of “Don Quixote”
was given to the public.
Darwin did not begin to write
his “Origin of the Species’ until
long past forty.
Milton was sixty when he began
to compose “Paradise Lost.”
Daniel Defoe was fifty-eight
soe."
Bunyan did not begin “Pil
until he was
more than forty.
Sir Walter Scott was forty-three
before he began to attract atten-
tion by his writings.
Bach did not compose until he
|
Harvey published his discovery
of the circulation of the blood at
Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales"
were the product of his old age.
Wordsworth did not gain renown
until after forty.
Have You a Question?
Ask C. Houston Goudiss
Pp
C. Houston Goudiss has put
the disposal of readers of this news
paper all the facilities of his famous
Experimental Kitchen Laboratory in
New York City. He will gladly
answer questions concerning foods,
diet, nutrition, and their relation to
health. You are also invited to con
sult him in of
hygiene. It's not necessary to write
a letter unless you desire, for post
card inquiries will receive the
careful attention.
East 39th Street,
al
matters personal
same
Address him at 6
New York City.
hemical engineering and th» fins
Sffect on the blood is
a
Homemaker's Responsibility
A balanced diet must include
sufficient base-forming foods to
neutralize and counter-balance
the effects of the acids formed in
metabolism,
That is one reason wh
important for the
provide her fam
milk, fruits
dition to the neces
eggs
In
better when
predominate,
diet
Some authorities beli
may be due not so muc t
effect on the acid-base balance
provi
of
alkaline
and \
and cereals
general, one
t ase
at least
the over acid-for
de su
amounts
minerals and fiber.
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one
buil
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to
siastic over
kalin
foods
balan
To those
seriously
feeding a
correctly
ot
necessary
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homemal
the
family,
informed, hall glad
art showing which
and
as a helpful guid
alanced diet
foods
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| Questions Answered |
Mrs. S. T. R.—No, egg
llent y
Miss M. V.
against the es
except
where, the fat in-
for some fat
take must be restricted
erate use of fried
have been properly cooked,
the diet palatable and interesting
Mrs. R. McK.—General
ing, the ideal w
women over thirty
mal weight at the
From that time
wuld be watcl
ntake reduced as soon
is noticed When at
reached, food is no longer re-
quired to support growth, and un-
less muscular activity is main-
tained at a high level, the total
energy requirement will gradual-
ly decline
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