Show ERRORS IN LIVING alana excessive appetite and the bobys capacity for food to the llaanyy mind nothing seems to au-gur an-gur so strongly inu favor of robust health as a hearty appetite furthermore there would seem to be a strong con-viction in the public mind sanctified by tradition from ttiimmoe almost imme-morial tahbaatt the more a man eats the better he iis the quantity of food that many people naturally eat is very large as compared with their actual physi-ological rd requirements add to this the lauy te forms in which food isa presented to the palate by our modern culinary arts the sharpening of the ap-petito ap-petite by the cocktail the stimulus afforded the appetite by a bot-tle of ggooooddwwininee and the result is often the consumption of an amount of food that simply overwhelms the assimila-tive organs such indulgence if unre-ssttrriicctteedd and habitual taxes both the as-similative and the excretory organs to their highest capacity especially when coupled with sedentary life and more-over it lends an additional impetus to the evils springing from the use of im-proper quality of food tthhoe human elaborating and excretory mechanism was evidently adjusted for ordinary wear and tear to an average limited period of about 70 years un-der 40 per cent of extra work we must naturally expect impairment or break-down of the mechanism much earlier it should therefore excite no special surprise that so large a proportion of our well to do people die from brighta dis-ease heart failure and allied diseases at 50 or 55 who should and under prop-erly regulated lives and habits would have attained the natural age of 70 or over paradoxical though it may seem seuch people usually spring from excel tionally healthy stock and often point with pride to tthhoe fact that their imme-diate ancestors lived to advanced ages of s8o0 years or more this paradox how-ever is more apparent than real for in-vveessttiigation will usually reveal the fact that for the most part the parents in such cases were people of more simple habits such as corresponded with nnoeww england life 756 or years ago the truth is that the well to do man of today lives in a faster age than that of his father and grandfather he meets with greater opportunities and possi-bilittiieess and therefore greater stimulus to all his energies he more easily ac-quires pecuniary resources and in larger amounts and therefore he pos-sesses greater luxuries of domestic life with these come greater temptations to excess while he has often inherited a splendid constitution from his ances-tors unlike them he has run his phys-ical mechanism aattaa breakdown rate and it must of necessity more quickly wear out charles W purdy M D in knorth american review |