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Show eai and grow younger Slow-down! Prematore Aging By LELORD KORDEL Number Twenty-Three of a Series i t was a physician with whom I sat during a flight from California to Chicago who pointed out the tremendous physical power of a positive mind. According to his estimate, 60 percent of the people were sick because of maladjusted minds and souls. Perfect health depends on the proper balance of physical, mental, emotional. An abused, undernourished, harassed body generally houses a mind incapable of optimum thinking and reasoning. As the body's central power station, the brain must be kept in top physical condition so its mental activities can be controlled. The man or woman who provides for the sunset years-physically, mentally, and emotionally-fulfills Browning's poetic prophecy. "The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made..." You cannot run a healthy mind when you have a physical defict. The mind governs the body, it is true. But the condition of the body also affects the mind. TOUCHY STOMACHS Stomachs abused with inferior, inadequate, and indigestible in-digestible meals become touchy. So does a brain that is constantly under-nourished. In a tired, ill-cared-for body, the brain is subject to a great amount of irritability. irrita-bility. A brain has to be well nourished to be emotionally stable. Dr. Karl Menninger believes food power helps brain power. I believe that no mental conflict strong enough to cause bodily illness ever arose until the brain cells were so undernourished and so fatigued that nervecell energy reached a dangerously low ebb. By making certain to eat foods that maintain the proper chemical balance in your body, you restore functional balance and check the effects of stress upon your system. Often, by relieving some of the physical tensions caused by hidden hunger, you can soften the inner climate in which you must do your thinking. It is much easier to enlist conscious aid if it is not preoccupied preoccu-pied with hunger. Dr. George Morris Piersol believes that nutrition plays a more important part than heredity in the development de-velopment of more vigorous body resistance and an extension of our life span. This physician says that if we would only apply the nutritional knowledge that is available to us, we could increase our life span by at least 10 percent. EXTEND LIFE SPAN He believes it is equally important to add life to our years as it is to add years to life. The sparkling, bubbling joy of living is achieved only by an optimum diet. It is maximum nutritional protection that will improve our life span and assure happiness, health, and efficiency. Dr. Henry C. Sherman of Columbia University insisted in-sisted that certain food elements are so important to the aging body that tHey can add six or more years of human existence. And Dr. Tom D. Spies, internationally noted nutritionist, nutri-tionist, said that if humans kept their bodies in chemical balance, they would grow old gracefully-with less mental men-tal and physical deterioration. Many people start to break down chemically in middle mid-dle life -- later becoming nutritional cripples. These cases have been undernourished for years because their diet lacked the proper nutrients: proteins, vitamins, minerals. Dr. W. Coda Martin of New York City says the incidence of degenerative diseases is increasing by leaps and bounds. He believes the findings of biochemists biochem-ists show that a large share of cases of arteriosclerosis, arthritis, liver and heart disease are the end result of prolonged malnutrition and can be averted by early adoption of an adequate diet. Dr. E. J. Steiglitz says, "The elderly are prome to suffer from protein deficiency more than from any other form of deficiency." Mild protein deficiency manifests itself chiefly as a "sense of habitual fatigue." Most people neglect themselves them-selves through improper diet. ENVIABLE HEALTH POSITION If you are average, chances are that you eat about 75 percent more starch and sugar foods than are compatible compati-ble with good health and desire to feel and look younger than your years. Premature old age is not a natural process, but the result of cumulative nutritional deficiencies. Aging is a general trend of the changes of the body in both structure and function. You age when atrophy and degeneration tear down your body more rapidly than worn tissues are being replaced. Balance this wear and tear with foods rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals. Cut down on fats, sugars and starches. And you can slow down the premature aging of your body and live a lot longer than you thought possible! Condensed from the book "Eat and Grown Younger" by Lelord Kordel. All rights reserved. Distributed by Specialty Features Syndicate. NEXT: Conclusion of Lelord Kordel's "Eat and Grow Younger" series which has been condensed from his book by the same name. |