Show excess weight causes heart added labor by DR JAMES IV BARTON released by western newspaper paper union aa MANY ANY smile ns as they speak of n friend os as acquiring I 1 or having acquired a 0 mid dle aged spread although lie ho is in his early As a matter of fact this individual is or HEALT has aged himself COLUMN by a number I 1 J of years aside from the natural disadvantages of overweight which slow up the individuals physical activities one of the more serious results is the increase in blood pressure it has long been said that a m man a n la Is as old ns ills his arteries mean ing that as the arteries sels lose some of their elastic clastic ti tissue tho the loss losa Is made up by hard or tissue As blood cannot bo be pumped into a hard resisting resist ing tube as easily as into one ona that Is soft and elastic the heart has to use that much more pressure to push blood onward this means more 1 wear and tear on J the heart even when the blood vessels have not lost their elastic tissue excess weight makes it necessary tor for the heart to push more blood through the blood vessels and the pressure pre sure dr barton needs need a must be considerable sid erable higher in proceedings of lite life extension examinations dr 11 A ley says As age increases and its accompanying accompany pany ing changes take place in the body it Is well known that an increase in weight will usually be related to an increase in tension of the blood vessels increased blood P pressure dessure res sure after a reduction in weight of 5 per cent or more the blood pressures of a group of applicants for life insurance were wera reduced despite the tact fact that the applicants cants were then five years older increases in weight showed greater increases in blood pressure than might attributed to advancing age loss of weight in people of normal weight produced greater reductions duct ions lons than did similar losses in the overweight gain in weight aman among g the normal weight persons showed less increase in blood pressure than similar gains among the overweight epilepsy and routine treatment A A attacks ot of epilepsy ax can be prevented entirely in many any cases and con can bd reduced in num number ber and severity in others there are arc still some cases in which attacks occur despite the usual routine treatment this tr enting is the cutting down on all starch foods and on all liquids increasing the amount of fat foods and the dally daily use 0 of f phenobarbital in the dose prescribed prescribe d by the physician physicians are often asked to advise young men and women whether it would be wise to marry when there la Is a family history ot ol epilepsy this Is often difficult because epilepsy to is sometimes caused by injury and there may be the history of but one caso case as far back as the family history can be traced epilepsy history traced dr W G lennox dr P F A gibbs and erna L gibbs boston in the jou journal anal of the american medical association state that although the opinion that heredity is an important influence in epilepsy Is ia widespread aspre ad only one epileptic person in alv five e Is able to name any relatives who had or has epilepsy by m means eans of electric equipment they were ablo to record on paper tho the brain waves of persons parents 0 or r children of 78 persons with epilepsy and 50 healthy persons 14 definitely abnormal records or tracings were obtained in 54 per cent of the relatives of epileptics against 6 per cent bentin in the CO 90 healthy persons control group who were not related to epileptics in 46 of the 78 families records were made madd of both parents in 28 per cent both parents and in 94 04 per cent at least one parent had abnormal records from the above records these research sea ach workers believe that the abnormal norma I 1 rhythm or regularity of brain waves Is inheritable and may represent a predisposition to epilepsy or similar ailments |