HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1943, Page 3

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

CUT DOWN THE PACE

One of the world’s leading medical authorities, Sir William Ostler, is credited with the epigram that the life of many a man has been saved, by a heart attack. In other words, he meant that many a man wno has thus been warned of a weak lie-art might live for years, providing he watched his health and was careful not to place on his defective heart a bigger Durden than it could stand.

Many people living to-day have weak hearts, even damaged, hearts, yet by observing ordinary care, they are leading normal, happy lives. But the number of deaths from heart trouble among people in their fifties has grown alarmingly, and doctors put it down to the hectic tempo of modern living. Fatal heart disease, which can occur with appalling swiftness, and without warning, kidney disease, cerebral haemorrhage, and apoplexy, all occasioned by hardened arteries arising from high bloocl pressure, are the main cause of those tragedies of degenerative disease.

Medical men believe that if people stopped wearing out their nerves and sapping their energy by the furious pace at which they drive themselves there would be much fewer cases of high blood pressure. Their advice is summed up in five simple words, “Learn to take it easy.’’ In other words, cut down the pace, and live healthier, happier and longer lives.