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Show Water Wagon Best Bestfor Bestfor for Livingin One Living in the TropicsCHICAGOIf Tropics TropicsCHICAGO CHICAGO-If CHICAGO If CHICAGO . - If you are go- go go - ing going to live l1ve in the tropics , you youwIll youwill youwill wIll chmb clImb aboard the water waterwagon waterwagon waterwagon wagon if you know what IS ISgood isgood isgood good for you . Here is 15 the recipe for successfully successfullyliving successfullyllvmg llvmg living m In a tropical climate , as gIven by givenby Drcec Dr . -cec cec - Cecil K . K . Drinker Drmker , Harvard HarvardphYSIOlogist Harvardphysiologist Harvardphysiologist phYSIOlogist adequatesleep 3dcquatesleep * . No alcohol ; ; 3dcquate adequate sleep , simple sunple food , , plenty of water waterplenty , plenty dailyexercise dallyexerCIse of salt in ill the diet , , and dally daily exerCIse . . longestsafe Two years is probably the longest safe period for a white man to Ilve live livem Ilvem livem m the tropics , according to Dr . DrlDker Drinker Dr.Drinker DrDrinker , , whose v.hose vhose 'hose hose . ' studies of the effectsof effects effectsof effectsof of heat and humidity on the human humanbody body editorial are made the subject of edi edi- cdl - ofthe othe torial tonal comment in the Journal o of f the American Medical Association . The health of a man from a tem tem- ter temperate terperate temperate - perate climate clunate begins gradually to t o todeteriorate deterIOrate v/hen v hen when / he goes to the th e tropIcs thetropics thtropics . Better Bettcr Be Tall and Thin Tbut Thor . fittedfor fittedtor fittefor A tall taU , thin person is best fitted fitte d tor for Dr.Drinker DrDrinker tropical life We , according to Dr . Drinker , for bis his body has a n maxi max.f- max.f max.fmwn maximum maximum . - - mum mwn surface for heat loss in re- re re - - relation lation to body weight wClght weightSome . thathave Some of tho the bodily bodl1y changes that tha t have restden residents been noted among white resi - * . dents s of the he tropics are as follows tallows ! , - - . - . The ie basal metabolism changes . . Fer . tility Fertility ratedecreases ratdecreases llty is reduced . The pulse rate rat decreases breathingrate breathIngra slightly sl1ghtIy . The breathIng ra rate te decreases , , but the minute vol volume . Often Otten volnine ume nine of airIS air is somewhat higher . Ot- Ot Of - ten Bloodsugar a slight alkalosis develops Blood Bloo Bloosugar d sugar is likely kely to be dn low the . ; ; non- non nonprotem non-protein non protein no noprotein n - protem protein total nitrogen nztrogen mtrogen increases 1I1creases ; the to to . - tal lowered phosphorus m in the blood is low to toered w * . , ered The red blood cells incrcase Increas e Increase\ Increase Increaseslightly incrcaseslightly Increasslightly \ slightly decreaseChildren ; ; the white cells decrease . Children , after the of ot threeyears tfIrceyears threyears ago age tfIrce thre e years , tend to become v/eak v eak weak / and a apathetic andapathetic aapathetic Bythe Bth . , Dr . Drinker Drinker Dnl\ker Dnl ker ' \ states . . B By y the th e time tune 3rer 3rert they are t isn ten oldthey n years old old . d , . they arc are poor in initiative lltlatlve and application apepIJcation aplication ape a ap p plication pIJcation . willpower wilpower In the case of adults ' ' ' , , . the wIll wi wil l power follows folows often otten weakens , laziness fol toI fo l- l - . lows and sometimes somctunes vicious ViCIOl13 habIts habit s gradually habitsgradually habitgradually de develop dccelop . elop elopI . . A . { -I I - ' < ' ! . r rs , = ) - |