HOW TO LIVE TO BE NINETY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 3 June 1925, Page 11

HOW TO LIVE TO BE NINETY.

MEASURES , THE ■ MAN OF

FORTY SHOULD TAKE. A man should observe the following rules if, when he has reached the age of forty, he desires to live, say, to ninety:— Visit the dentist every six months. Eat meat once a day only. Neyor take alcohol before night, and take very little even then. A man of 40 should never drink beer, because it makes him corpulent. Every man of 40 who would live to 90 must become a food specialist. He should fast for three days from time to time, drinking lots of alkaline fluid, such as Vichy water. A brain worker should not take a heavy lunch at one o'clock, A man of 45 or 50 Bhould eschew afternoon tea. . ~ At the evening dinner fish, fowl, or game were better than veal, pork, or roast beef. -..,,• ; -The foregoing,'guides., to longevity were, laid down by Dr.. Charles S. Thom-' son. Medical Officer of Healthy speaking' at the Nations' Food Exhibition; Olym pia, London, recently. " Taking as Ms subject "Food and Fit ness at Forty," . ho. said that, a man at that age had it in his power not only to 'avoid disaster at 55 or 60, but to live through; a healthy,, ac-' tive middle age until 70,' with yet another 20 years of comfortable life to look forward to. • The chronic bdn jiveur,, the ' gay Lothario, the glutton, and wine-bibber who died early was a suicide. To'be' fit at 40, and to enter into a joyous middle age it was necessary to tako early cognisance of the food and drink consumed, study the air one breathed, exercise and rest, circulation, and respiration. A man of 55 had no right to be bald, deaf, stiff in the muscles,.: obese, with teeth going, and some varicose ; veins. When they added to over-indulgence in food and'drink'the strain'of social and business ambitions, .worry, anger arid grief, then their errors were followed, by structural changes in the organs. Tho mad and ineffectual race for life became the triumphant race for death. Those who cut down their intake after 40 had a clear eye, a retentive m'emory, an elastic step, an unirritated brain, resilient and elastic arteries, and' a green old age as .their reward. .<