Show ERRORS IN LIVING maue appetite n alie hadj capacity for food to abo lay mind nothing seems to angur FO strongly ill favor of robust a hearty appetite furthermore abero would beem to be a strong conviction in the public by tradition from time almost immemorial abat the more a mail eats the better he is the quantity of food that many people naturally eat is very large as compared with their actual physiological requirements add to this the many tempting forms in which food is presented to the palate by conr modern culinary arts the sharpening of the appetite by the cocktail the stimulus afforded the appetite by a bottle of good wine and the result is often the consumption of an amount of food that simply overwhelms the assimilative organs sach indulgence if unrestricted stricter ed and habitual taxes both the asi and the excretory to their highest capacity especially when coupled with sedentary life and moreover it lends an additional impetus to the evils springing from the nse of improper quality of food the human elaborating and excretory mechanism was evidently adjusted for ordinary wear and tear to an average limited period of about 70 years under 40 per cent of extra work we must naturally expect impairment or breakdown of ho mechanism much earlier it should therefore excite no special surprise that so large a proportion of conr well to do people die from bright disease heart failure and allied diseases at who should and under properly regulated lives and habits have attained the natural ago of 70 or over paradoxical though it may seem such people usually spring from exceptionally tio nally healthy stock and often point with pride to the fact that their immediate ancestors lived to advanced ages of 80 years or more this paradox however is more apparent than real for investigation vesti gation will usually reveal the fact that for the most part alio parents in such cacs were people ct more simple habits such as corresponded with new england lifo 76 or fia years ago the truth is that the well to do man of today lives in a faster age than of his father and grandfather ho meets with greater opportunities and possibilities bili ties and therefore greater stimulus to all his energies he more easily acquires pecuniary resources and in larger amounts and therefore ho possesses greater luxuries of domestic life with these acme greater temptations to excess while he has often inherited a splendid constitution from his ancestors unlike them lio has run hie physical mechanism at a breakdown rate and it must f necessity more quickly wear out charles W pardy U D in north american review |