Show Water Wagon Best for One Living in the Tropics CHICAGO lf If you are arc going go go- going ing to live in the tropics you will climb aboard the water wagon if you know what is good for fOl you Here lIero Is 11 the recIpe for successfully living In I a tropical climate as u given by Dr Cecil K Drinker Harvard physiologist No alcohol adequate sleep simple food plenty of water plenty of aalt salt In the diet and dally daily ex exercise Two years rears Is I. probably the longest lonest safe ate period for a white man to live lIvo In the tropics tropic according to Dr Drinker whoso whose studies of the tho effects of heat and humidity on the human body are made the tho subject of edi edl tonal comment in the Journal of the American Medical Association The health of a man from a temperate temperate tem ter climate begins gradually t to o deteriorate to when h he goes roe to the he tropics Better De Be TaU and Thin A tau tall thin person Is la best bet fitted for tropical life lie according nl to Dr Drinker for his body has hat a maximum maxi mail mum surface for heat belt loss lOll in is relation re re- lation to body weight Some Som of the bodily changes chances that tha t bave have been noted amon among white rest resi dents dent of ot the tropics are as II follows follow The basal bual metabolism changes chance Fer Fee U Is reduced d. d The Tho pulse pull rate rat e decreases slightly lightly The Tho breathing f ra rate te decreases but the minute volume vol ume of air Is II somewhat higher 0 Of Ot f ten a slight alkalosis develops develop Bt Blood sugar is It likely to be low the nazi non non- protein nitrogen increases the t total to to- a tal tat phosphorus in the blood It is to low w teed red The red blood cells increase y slightly the Ule whit white cells decrease e Children after the age aee of three thre e years yean ean tend t od to become weak an and d apathetic Dr Drinker states By DI D Ithe I- I the Urns tune they are tea ten old years yearn eus they are poor in initiative and a ap apo s la Ia the case cue of adults the wl will willpower U power often weakens lame fo fol tol 1 lows low and sometimes vicious habits habit gradually develop |