Show lilii VI DIET lii EXERCISE ally AND HEALTH tj II 11 continued from last issue let us briefly notice the mechanism ism of breathing tho the bronchial tube edi divides vides and each part continually until they end and in many thousands Ahou sands of air cells th tho ve venous vee E blood alood from all parts of the body Is sent nent from the right side of the heart through the artery which also continually subdivides until tho the air cells are each surrounded by ti a motmore mot mork of capi laries where carbon uc acid Is ia thrown out and oxygen Is absorbed bs orbed thus tho the arrangement is i the air goes to all the air cells in deep breathing and the bloodstream blood in all the caplIa capi laries rieB Is purifica cd by the exchange of 0 oxygen and carbonic acid but in shallow there Is enough oxygen to purify only a part of the blood stream and the balance goes back to the meart as aa second hand Is it strange that ahat we should feel like second hand people this is but part ot of harmful effect or of shallow breathing you haave all heard of the danger from the otho poisonous gas gar formed when run taing an engine in a closed garage one no or two per cent proving fatal the same poison is formed when inhere is not sufficient oxygen to form carbonic acid in tho the system and this poison is the cause of many of our ills when wo we note the breathing mechanism tho the blood current sent equal ay to all the air cells to be purified the avenue from these cells sy lav open to the air piled miles high am all about us how can we escape the that nature intended that we should breathe deeply but how about the tact fact that shallow breata ing Is almost universal natures uni far tana adaptation of means to ends Is surprising how can we explain this plain exception exy eption what has happened to myself within the last two years explains the matter to me very fully whether it will vill be a satisfactory explanation to others I 1 do not know and nin am somewhat curious to learn leam to tell the story you will have to excuse my talking balking about myself near two years ago I 1 corralled a bramall all bunch of horses at coyote I 1 my riding horse maj inside the corral when I 1 picked myself up 1 1 thought it was a very foolish move have changed my mind since 3 1 was petting one of the bunch at tahe middle of the corral when anoch adoth ter ier passed behind maj he backed suddenly kicked the other horse jumped out of the way and maj landed as nicely as possible on my hip pockets with a lifting blow that sent me headlong and I 1 seemed to dalight with my full weight on my left cheek check bone on tile the very hard srun nd it put a face on me this aljury no doubt was the cause of an attack of acute diabetes in february 1919 complicating the attack was tone A work on an fn a lack ot of digestive swedish movements claimed marked results in this condition I 1 began to take lake tho the exercises dally daily their effect being to massage tile the digestive organs and tenso tense the muscles of tho the abdominal walls in ten days there was a marked toning of digestion and I 1 could plainly servo the tensed condition of tho the muscles they were holding mo me together and not lax as before beginning the exercises something called my attention to my bro breathing athing and on noticing closely I 1 found an inspiration that the expansion of the chest and the contraction of the diaphragm were approximately full possibly caused by the resistance to expansion of the tensed abdominal muscles mus clea and I 1 sensed plainly too that on expiration these tensed muscles contracted and took part in the second halt half of breathing helping to expel the air from the lungs lunga I 1 was surprised to find that deep slow reactive breathing was going on and that it was entirely involuntary and this same full deep slow reactive breathing tins has continued every breath for over a year I 1 have watched closely hundreds of times when sitting or lying quietly and have not once caught myself taking the shallow stingy breaths that were so common before I 1 must guess at an explanation there certainly was not timo time in ten days to form a deep breathing habit for I 1 had practiced voluntary deep breathing for weeks previously and no habit was established the most probable explanation may be that tensed abdominal muscles are normal and furnish the necessary condition for the activating and controlling influence of one of the ductless glands and the deep breathing is not the only gain made the toning of digestion is permanent being better than at any time since in IS 6 4 the unbalanced died in the service added to the effect of an attack of malarial typhoid in western tennesee had put my digestion more or less out of commission A further effect of the tensing is the doing away with a tendency to abdominal and pelvic congestion and the establishing of 0 normal circulation this is so marked that there is much less tendency to take cold than formally tho the whole sequence the tensed muscles the toned digestion the deep breathing and the normal circulation cu have made me feel at least twenty years younger it if I 1 am not an exception it if the same result can be made generally the gain will be well worth while if however the present challow rha improper breathing prevails a few percent must be allowed as its degenerative influence 9 EXERCISE A basic law as to exercise Is this no muscle will con tract properly and no organ will at act properly unless it has proper tone and this must be given by the necessary exercise further as a chain is as strong as tho the weakest link binl so the human system is as strong as the weakest v part for it if this weal weakest est part alls it will cause the downfall of tho whole structure nature then intends that by exercise we should keep the whole system approximately oven even in strength what is gained by active exercise the first obvious gain is tile the strengthening of the muscle or part used next it i the exercise is properly chosen an equal gain is made by massaging one or more related organs third a marked beneficial effect on breathing and fourth the speeding up and equalizing of the circulation it has been demon that vigorous exorcise increases the blood flow through the muscles as many as six times if by moderate exercise exer cibe we ca can increase tor for instance the digestive work done in a I 1 given time only twice wo we can readily see sec how exercise exer cisa benefits too many people run their system on slow every process slows down digestion assimilation and elemina tion with the consequent clogging of the system by waste knowing tho the general lack of exorcise exercise especially that which produces an evenly balanced system ve ne must place the per cent duo to lack of exercise much higher than any so far considered 10 DIET to wrongs of diet can bo be traced the larger part of the increased death rate what we eat today is what we are arc tomorrow it our eating is wrong we certainly will bo be wrong the problem then is to got get all we need to do our work for repair and for the production of heat and energy and to omit all wo we do not need we must know then food values and food needs the germans volt voit rubner and others were the first to make systematic annaly ses of food rubner being of marked assistance jn in helping the german people during tho the world war to make the best use of their limited food supply but after getting the food values the further problem rations were to be taken to make a balanced ration to get at this they took the average of what a large number of the common people were eating and made it tho the standard in so doing they placed the ration of protein or muscle making food much too high A real natural standard food is milk upon which alone young animals grov and thrive milk atila contains less than four per cent of protein but not all proteins have the same food value avalue as they can be analyzed into 18 amino acids some proteins contain all these amina acids others only a part and these in varying proportions proportion one that will maintain an adult and provide for normal growth is a complete protein some proteins will neither maintain life nor provide for growth and must be balanced by those containing the lacking amino acids the protein of milk Is complete and is all utilized but to io get the proper proportion of tile the amino acids nearly twice as much wheat must be used and to get the proper proportion nearly twice the amount of beans as of wheat this varying value of protein food makes the choosing the right amount more difficult for the diet problem consists in getting all we need of each food group and to omit all we do not need every cents worth of food taken into the system that it cannot use must be digested if i possible and thrown oft off at the expense of and at an entire waste of energy and this is not all the loss foods decompose within the body as readily as without perhaps more readily on account of the greater heat and because especially ally with an unbalanced diet thero there is no lack in the colon of the bacteria which takes part in th the a process of decomposition it is tho the acid product of decomposition that is much the largest factor in causing the degenerative diseases and producing au an increasing death rate of from 19 to 43 per cent and the unbalanced diet does not consist only in an excess of 0 protein A prevalent diet Is bread and butter meat pota toes and coffee tho the bread nearly straight starch too much protein tho the potatoes nearly straight starch tho the coffee a drug excess of starch decomposes also tho the poisons absorbed by the blood effect first the walls of the arteries carrying tho the poison causing hardening and brittleness with any extra pressure in the brain the walls of the arteries give way and apoplexy le ie suits the muscle of the heart is similarly affected the liver is overworked result disease likewise the kidneys overworked what about the remedy everywhere diet is chosen largely by the housekeepers of the nation it is useless to give housekeepers a scheme of the rations of food group sand a table of food values and expect them to work out a balanced ration the T he subject must be simplified and made practical oni one of the best books is ie t that at of prof mccullors lorn on bihy I 1 ihy lie newer knowledge of tion Alon in it are giver given be e conlu conclusions eions draw i from nearly te bedin Ce eiting din e apri pari ments varying in length from G necks to four years omo or of these experiments are aud and ahr th general principles brawn rawn filin them given some general I 1 acas also as to food values but no extended tables enough however Is 1 1 l I an n sc tho earnest reader can yet get neap a balanced diet without an vidue ndue ey pend iture of time in III an one n f tile the v peri ments small animals are 1 I 1 th ch proper rations 0 of pure foods and the animals soon die next the correct of minerals vero vere added with a little better results but tha tend lend was tho the same then the vita imen the water soluble B was added better results but the animals did not thrive there being something still lacking prof mccullon made the discovery of another vitar men the fat soluble A which being added to the ration the animals thrived normally in every way so continued on page seven EXERCISE IL T HEALTH continued form page six up ul to tile the time of this discovery about seven years ago no ono one was competent to give the full content of a balanced diet but enough is ia now known if generally put to use to add from 15 to 20 years to the average life of the people but how to interest and reach the people it if we had the teachers the method of ngat schools by which an enthusiastic tennessee school maam disposed of illiteracy might be used the re sarve officers training camps might be changed into teachers training camps to educate young men and women to fit them to teach the whole people how to live to sum up as to the factors entering into the increasing death rate from degenerative diseases the main ones would be posture a few per par I 1 cent breathing a considerable larger per cent exercise a still larger per cent diet tho the balance much more than the others combined but there is a further subject to consider our our view our idea as to the nature of health or of disease and of 0 cure and their rel relation aaion to one another this has much to do with our course of action As an example our idea of 0 the nature of enlarged tonsils would have much to do with j choosing tho the remedy if matuie has so placed tile the tonsils that they absorb poisons or produce them became diseased and are the cause of other diseases if the tonsils ton sils are at fault removal may b be a th the a proper remedy but if nature has so arranged n function of the fonsila tonsils is to help antagonize and destroy tile the poisons we ourselves produce the problem s different if we overwork a horse is it fie cie indicated remedy to shoot the horse or 0 r shall ve a give him a reaf res and assist nature to restore him to usefulness health is the normal condition 0 I 1 lie ho system I 1 n D i is in condition ni rd bv onie ome Mn Nin lation of 1 1 lans cure care ol 01 du dis ase is brought baroug ht about 1 tl leae i caption tion of the vital force nt a i i t on punctual condition thi this r I 1 n astore it to the n i in I 1 j iongi lonai I 1 r upper and s 31 i r adeep irl bil atin intelligent iv I 1 kirc tra i i r PS digestion ri ra ia i i n an i in ikuo iio is al ai ft r it i vrr deep nd i i ha the IT i roas reas v ail 11 ll and feeling 2 cr icim I ciol i iid ad our m most ost if r it rn 1 an ignorant of oc ti ft 0 c ro r ply pl y il by the duct le IE lindam anil t the other self gelf 0 if nio mo t ul ill I 1 and nd n d snows news tills this jaul fully nd the subconscious conscious pub mb mind ind ca cai ca i be ducatel ducat kl and trained to do 0 what 1 jv wl ald uld I 1 ie e otherwise imp impossible ossia a you hai hae e 1 alifi P i id d of the man who had won wor IK c 1 ri 1 r t P problem for data rn iid 1 i worie up one cilia morning to find it completely TIc taly solved by his other self it i is S this unconscious or subconscious f force orce that acta as tile tho healing pov ei of nature tile the vis medica trix naturae in ill tho the large majority of abnormal conditions this force unassisted unas sited will bring about a cure how can we assist this healing rower to icart Is there one way only or are there a number nul aber of ways wo we ila have ve sl seen in ome gome of 0 the cases given ii in tins tills tall talk tho the value of eor cise and massage of a balanced diet the explication application of water is ono of the most valuable le of nature cures plainly getting ita ts results result by its reactive influence the application of the various electric currents the X rays tho the violet violat rays and radium are in part means of a assisting reaction and all have earned a right to recognition manipulating tile tho spinal nerves for the influence upon tile the organs or parts they supply has been put upon a scientific basis by abrams and oth pr ors q and tile the results of the reactive influence has been so well established in ai numberless undoubted cures that the prosecution of such titio can bo be based only on pure comar cial ism zone is treated by causing a slight the reactive influence from mental suggestion has resulted in cures that an not be controvert ed another recent method zone therapy rests also on tho the reactive dea each beach half of the body Is divided into five zones corresponding to the fingers and toes A pain in any irritation in ili the samo same zone pinching the end of the corresponding finger by wrapping with an elastic or snapping on a clothes pin unreasonable as it may seem not only many pains are arc relieved but even 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