Show bogre H 0 V N aka RE aday X DAY D DR R JA JAMES M I 1 W BARTON talks monaco of overweight 0 NORMAL condition has ja occurred more frequently among my diabetic patients than has obesity overweight I 1 am quoting dr elliott elli ott P joslin boston the outstanding authority on diabetes life insurance companies are very strict in their consideration of permitting over weights to take out insurance as they have round found that so many of 0 of them later develop diabetes in tact fact they have found that in examining applicants for or insurance as many as 20 per cent already are showing sugar lo in the urine the average diabetic man or woman has been greatly overweight overweight Is due to overeating bating what mist Is added to the waist line ls Is dr barton cut from the life line V dr chas H mayo a says M men en fifty yer years a old and fifty pounds overweight are much more likely to have cancer than the normal this means then that eating or overeating Is a factor in causing cancer because halt half the cases of cancer are found in the stomach and intestines to sum it up the over weights have a higher death rate at fifty years of age an excess weight of si 95 pounds increases the death rate by 50 per cent I 1 am quoting from how to live by prof irving fisher and dr lyman fisk however ov over erwel weights abts have more than the death rate to consider they must think of their everyday lite life their chances for good health their ability to get around easily their resistance si to ailments allme their mental ability or grip some famed light eaters eater famous men whose brains keep clear till the end are usually light eaters who from early years of experimenting have found out just what agrees with them and are satisfied this amount and variety of food chauncey depew attended dinners and banquets three or four times a week for years but always looked over the menu and ate only the foods he be knew gave him the nourishment he required thos A edison came of a long lived family who for generations had learned to eat what they knew their bodies required and no more thus in an interview some years ago edison said the body Is only a piece of machinery and every practical man knows that to get good work out of a machine and keep it in repair at the same time one must know how to take care of it now it if you have a horsepower engine and a boiler big enough to drive it no wise engineer will fire that boiler to full capacity when he only wishes to take eight horsepower out of his engine if he does he sooner or later burns the grate bars out of his firebox fire box but that Is just what the majority are doing burning up horsepower ot of fuel in their bodies and taking out eight horsepower of work Is it any wonder that the boiler flues and the arteries get clogged up tip that the pipes burst causing apoplexy truth about the stomach As you know early man lived outdoors used the great bulk of muscle covering his body had a natural appetite and filled his stomach when he obtained food because he did not know just when he would get his next meal thus nature supplied him with a stomach that would hold enough food to fill his bis needs tor for a whole day or more today we have these same huge muscles covering our bodies and have the same large stomach but we do not live lire outdoors do not work these huge muscles and so do oot not need more than about half the food fond that was depler by early man yet because we have the same big stomach and get the kinds of food we like many of us thoughtlessly think we have to fill this big stomach three times a day Ile remember member then that we need some of all the different kinds of food dally daily that Is a ment meat eggs or fish b cream butter or other fat e c v vegetables both starchy and leafy d minerals and e water but it if we want to be at our best mentally and physically we eat just the amounts of these foods that will keep us its strong without increasing our weight above ormal normal 0 i relaxation and sleep so much has been written about the value of sleep that ninny many cerioni andl individual individuals worry themselves into sleeplessness they fear dire ailments or even insanity if they dont get a certain tain number of hours of sleep each night now while nothing can take the place of real sleep with every muscle relaxed it has been found that if an individual Is unable to sleep but can mind a point almost approaching sleep he be can attain as high as SO per cent of the value of sleep it Is estimated that two hours sleep in the 24 will keep anyone alive 40 that with complete relaxation for our hours and say tour hours sleep vou ou might be fully capable of doing our wort work enough outdoor exercise without overdoing iver ver doing it brings on a natural ped for sleep that Is better titan than ans her method of inducing sleep 6 service |