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Show Heart Disease A Killer Heart disease is rapidlv becoming be-coming the chief cause of' death in the United States, being far ahead of cancer, the second on the list of diseases which kill the greatest number of people in the United States every year. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, of the ten leading causes of death in the country, only one, tuberculosis, has shown a steady decline during the past three years. Whether this is tc be attributed to the steady campaign cam-paign which is waged agains' the white plague, or not, we have no way of knowing but we suspect sus-pect that there is some close connection. con-nection. Concerning heart disease, a rec-ognied rec-ognied authority reports that coronary sclerosis is sometimes called the "disease of the imelli-bensia" imelli-bensia" because of the susceptibility suscepti-bility of physicians, bankers, lawyers and clergymen. The characteristics of the disease include in-clude the hardening of the nerves, ligaments and blood vessels ves-sels around the heart and its incidence is among those who do mental work and lowest among those who do manual labor. The PYRAMID naturally hesitates hesi-tates to attempt any conclusion from these observations but, apparently, ap-parently, the disease attacks individuals in-dividuals who are prone to forget the importance of physical exercise exer-cise while consuming their energies ener-gies in the anxiety of mental wories. It would appear that, somewhere along the line of popular pop-ular education ?n this country, the physical nature of man ha: been neglected. If this is true, and we believe that it is, we might save the lives of future professional men by stressing athletic interests during dur-ing childhood, with the hope that, when they grow up, the individuals in-dividuals will have sense enough to continue what has been wisely wise-ly begun. |