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Show ll'r Aging Too Fast? Check Your Diet I This newspaper is pleased to start today a 1 1 Q hard-hitting commentary on present-day food MIR habits, "Eat and Grow Younger," by Lelord Sri Kordel The book from which this series is adapted, has been an instant sensation where-"f'K where-"f'K has appeared. Don't miss a single one of 'he 24 parts. By LELORD KORDEL Number One of a Series . MR. IJ. AWOKE one morning to a disturb-"r0( disturb-"r0( f8 discoverv- A panicky feeling welled up QUv1 from the pot belly that has begun to bulge out r Wow his belt. He glanced across the breakfast - table at Mrs. U. Dismayed, he realized for the C Q I Erst time that the woman facing him was in the same unpleasant fix as he now found himself. He was getting old-and so was she! Q) U His usual zest for breakfast was gone! Why did people have to grow old so soon? He was only 46. Look at old Joe Jenks, who Jal lived on a neighboring farm when he was a F 4 H oellad8otuP before sunrise every morning, ITI did more work than the hired man, ate heartily, f? '" f like a t0P took a voung second wife, and le(1 the whole community by living hale and f l'A A "ey. well into his 90' s. ! J,'--fs at Was wrong? Why shouldn't men and C V, omen keep on looking and feeling young and V L 1Ve Pt that momentous 40th birthday? No Hmr' rson, actually, why everyone past 40 shouldn't look and feel young and vigorous. BODY MORE THAN MACHINE We often speak of the human body as a "machine." Yet, actually, your body is more than a machine-it's an extremely complex laboratory where intricate chemical reactions take place which no human chemist has even been able to duplicate. The awe-inspiring thing about this mysterious myste-rious body of yours is that when some "mechanical" "mecha-nical" part breaks down, under ideal conditions condi-tions your "chemical laboratory" can rush quickly produced substances to the spot that needs repairing, in order that life may go on and the body's efficiency not be seriously im- PaYou'U notice I said that "under ideal conditions" condi-tions" the chemical laboratory in your body can produce quickly those mending substances needed to put injured or worn-out body parts back in good working order. What are those ideal conditions? First - certain "test tubes" (the endocrine glands) must be in proper working order. Editor's Note: What is the Kordel Plan? It is a way of living healthily while eating enjoy-ably. enjoy-ably. A faulty diet, Lelord Kordel believes, if often both cause and symptom of much physical physic-al and mental illness in men and women today. His studies of the effects of good on mind and body have convinced him that proper diet can prevent, even eliminate, many illnesses. Revise Re-vise your way of eating, says Lelord Kordel, and you will begin to really live. Second -- enough of a certain food element known as protein must be provided for the body's chemical laboratory, not only to keep the glandular "test tubes" themselves up to par, but also to rebuild constantly wearing out cells throughout your entire body. 'OLDSTERS' STAY YOUNG During a recent tour of South America, I met some remarkable oldsters with a talent for living liv-ing long and vigorously. In Uruguay and Argentina I noticed an amazing number of older old-er persons whose pep and stamina were nothing no-thing short of miraculous, compared to that of the average American of the same age. On the other hand, in the more tropical parts of Brazil, I was singularly impressed by the lack of elderly persons to be seen on the streets. "A matter of diet," was my explanation, remembering the high-starch diets of tropical Brazil as compared to the meals I had noted being set before the Uruguayans in the city's splendid restaurants. Plates containing liberal portions of meat, roasted or broiled; bowls generously heaped with green salads; and trays of temptingly arranged fresh fruits. ABILITIES BELIE YEARS In Argentina, on an estancia not far from Buenos Aires, I had a close-up view of those oldsters whose appearances and abilities belied be-lied their calendar years. My host was a wealthy Argentinian, educated edu-cated in England, whose estancia was devoted to raising blooded horses for racing and for polo. His pastures extended for thousands of acres, and across them roamed large numbers of the finest horseflesh I've ever seen and some of the youngest "old men." "You're to be commended for keeping on those older fellows," I remarked to my host. "In my country they would long since been replaced or pensioned off." "Not at all," came his quick reply. "I'm very lucky to have them. They are the backbone back-bone of my estancia. Many of them were with my grandfather. My worry is what I shall do without them. But that probably won't be for another 10 years or so." Before leaving the estancia near Buenos Aires, I took a meal with Justino and the other gauchos down at their quarters. A whole sheep (sometimes it was a side of beef) was roasted in the skin over an open fire. When the meat was done to a turn, nicely browned on the outside but tender and juicy on the inside, large chunks were hacked off by each man with the long-bladed long-bladed knife he wears at the back of his broad belt. These large chunks of meat, followed by second and third helpings until nothing was left but the carcass, constituted the entire meal -no potatoes, no bread, no pie. Nothing but meat followed by a gourd of the brew made from the green herb called mate. Yet this was not an exceptional meal with them - it was the diet they followed three times daily, year in, year out. FOR BETTER NUTRITION Meat, of course, is another way of saying protein. For meat provides the highest type, most complete protein. "All very interesting," you may comment, "but is it good nutrition, this meat-and-mate diet of your gaucho?" To which I hasten to reply with a big, loud "Yes!" Far better nutrition than is to be found on the expensively itemized menus of the finest epicurean restaurants in our cosmopolitan cosmopoli-tan centers, with their dozens of tempting dishes dis-hes from which to choose - most of them too starchy, sweet and overcooked. Remember, it is the nutritional pauper who early loses his vitality and glow of youth. Any person who surfeits his body with carbohydrates carbohy-drates and starves it of proteins is a nutritional pauper. You'll meet protein in several guises later on. But regardless of the form in which it appears on your plate, protein will be right in there pitching for you, striking out old age and pepping up slack muscles. Before you can hope to Eat and Grow Younger, you must make a mealtime companion of protein, your "youth restorer" food. Condensed from the book "Eat and Grow Younger" by Lelord Kordel. All rights reserved. re-served. Distributed by Specialty Features Syndicate. Syn-dicate. Next: The Elixir of Youth that is found in your foods. As vital to human life as oxygen. |