Show Advice on Your Health i iBy By Morris Fishbein Editor Journal American Medical Association The will to live is deeply rooted in all mankind From the be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning of time man has sought ought not only increasing years but in increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing years of usefulness One of our leading biologists Dr Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins indicates that until we are 20 years old we do not pay much attention as to how long we will live but after that age we begin to think what we can do to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve our health and to realize the 70 years of age which is the life cycle of man man Apparently the older we get the more anxious we are to keep on living Just a few days ago agoa a man who had reached the age of 87 wrote asking a lot of questions questions questions ques ques- because he wanted to be certain to reach the age of 90 With the development of modem modern modern mod mod- em ern medicine great help has come cometo cometo cometo to enable most human beings to reach at least 60 years of age This help however is chiefly in inthe inthe inthe the earlier years of life In 1890 only 72 per cent of boy babies reached 10 years of age now 91 per cent reach 10 years of age In 1890 out of every white males who had reached 70 years of age managed to live to the age of 90 Now only out of every white males who have reached the age of 70 live to reach 90 Moreover there is no evidence at all that the life cycle of man has been extended and there does not seem to be any likelihood that it will be in the near future All that has been 3 changed is the average t of life 1 Frequently I have pointed ou oui in these columns that the peep who live long are those win come from parents and grandparents grand grand' grandparents parents who have lived long The Thi sons of fathers who did not live livi livelong livelong long may reasonably expect to live a shorter period of time than thai the sons of fathers who did live long This factor becomes operative opera oper tive more particularly after the age of 60 Thus at the age of 6 60 69 the sons of fathers who lived to tobe tobe o obe be 80 have a life expectancy th that thatis t is 40 per cent greater than th that t of the sons of fathers who died before the age of 50 1 In his consideration of the sub Dr Raymond Pearl has made madea a special study of the relation ship of the use of beverages to long life Everybody knows the anecdotes of the old men who lived long and were persistent drinkers and of theold theold the old men who lived long and ana never drank a drop of The statement is sometimes made mad that the latter did not live longer longe but that it only seemed longer Nevertheless the exact scientific study of this question leads to th general conclusion that moderate e. e drinking does not significant shorten life but that heavy drik diminish the e ing does seriously length of life Investigations also h 0 we d quite conclusively that after the tee shorten age of 40 to 45 a man will vill his life by heavy caY physical labo I |