HOW TO LIVE LONG.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 12

HOW TO LIVE LONG.

NATURE’S WAY THE BEST

THE SECRET OF HEALTH. At the root of the problem of illhealth is the fact that Nature’s Jaws are not gonorally understood, there is disposition to regard them as intricate and elaborate, whereas they are exceedingly simple (writes W. Arbuthnot Bane in John Bull). People are allowing themselves to '■ be enslaved to highsounding medical phrases; they are hypnotised by Latin and Greek names and consequently fail to realise that Nature’s scheme for life is simple and 8t A^tleTthought will reveal the significant fact that almost all the complicated ailments and diseases fiom which people suffer are the direct result of violating Nature’s very simple A recent article of mine has been productive of a heavy correspondence from manv members ot the public who are earnest in their desire to discover the true way of living, and so I have been invited to try to render the laws of Nature still more clear to those who have been in the past or who are m danger of becoming in the victims of outraged Nature Let m then explain the cause of natural death, and by so doing point- out the way of natural life.

CHICKENS AND THE THYROID. Some years ago Dr Alexis. Gar re 1, the winner of the Nobel .Pnz Alediciue, succeeded in growing living cells upon a microscopic slide, inese cells were taken from various parts of a chicken. , -.r, The 1 cells were fed every day w ith a little thyroid, and they were also cleansed regularly by being washed with water. He pointed out that it is not the food that plays the most important part in keeping them alive, but that it is the cleansing by means ot which the products of digestion ou the cells which are poisonous are removed virtue of being fed, and especially by their being cleansed oi the natural products, these cells can live-for ever. Dr Carrel has discovered that dv neglecting to- wash away the excreta sufficients frequently and thoroughly that these cells deteriorated in vitality. If he cleansed them only once in Jour days they nearly died; it he cleansed them once in three days they were m a low condition; but when he cleansed them every day they, thrived and were exceedingly healthy and virile.

CLEAR AAV AY THE RUBBISH. Dr. Carrel' said that these experiments with living cells confirm the view that natural health does amt depend so much on what we eat as upon the removal of the products that the cells of our . bodies excrete. As with Dr. Carrel’s cells so with the human body; if it could be perfectly drained it should never die. Proof of this is afforded by the jiumerous instances of fasting and hungerstriking. « There are cases of men who have refused to take nourishment for as long as or more than a. month, yet their bodies we re healthy, their faculties quite alert and their organs functioning. These men, while they had no food, took each morning a saline draught. In this way they thoroughly washed the organs of the body—they subjected their bodily drainage system to the same process as the housewife dees when she flushes the drains with Condy’s fluid. Death from starvation is practically death from poisoning by the retention of the excretions of the body. . Consequently, there is established this indisputable fact that bodily, health, and therefore physical life, is net maintained by eating large quantities of food,; but by effectually cleansing the inter-nal-organs of bodily refuse. ' People who are confined in prisons or asylums do not contract cancer and allied diseases as do those who “live high”; because in such institutions only small quantities of food are taken; it is plain and wholesome, and .the drains of the body are flushed regularly and naturally. Nor is there such a high rate of deaths from cancer, appendicitis, colitis and kindred complaints among the poor people- as there is among the wealthy. The poorer people live plainly and simply, with bread as the staple food, while manv of the wealthy habitually over-eat. Very many poor people die from too much food than from too little. HOAV AYE EAT.

The process of feeding is, like all Nature’s processes, straightforwardly simple. The food that is taken in by the month is passed by a. series of reflexes down from the mouth into the stomach, through the orifice of the stomach into, the small intestine and then into the large bowel. After each meal there should occur an evacuation of the bowel just as is the case in the animal in normal surrounding and in the human infant. The quantity evacuated hears a defiinite proportion to the bulk of food taken. And yet parents and teachers train their children into the utterly unnatural habits of attempting to- empty the bowel only on a single occasion, and tha-t- immediately after breakfast!

I have just been studying the domestic- arrangements of most of the boarding and public schools of England, and have been amazed to discover that the rigid time-table of these institutions only allow the boys time.to visit the lavatorv during the few minutes immediately after breakfast. As though this is riot bad enough, I find that,, on the average, there is one water-closet for the use of every seven to ten hoys. And these hoys have possibly, little more than ten minutes in which to make use of the facilities provided, and to compete with their fellows for the requisite accommodation. There is no doubt whatever that cancer, appendicitis and most other complaints originate in the unsatisfactory food and worse habits of our educational institutions. By eating natural foods—fruits, green stuffs and wholemeal bread —in sufficient quantities and ensuring.that the cells of the body excrete their natural products, and that the drainage system, of the body is cleansed three times a day. ill-health can he avoided and life very considerably prolonged.

PUTTING OFF DEATH. Death intervenes because the impure elements that the cells throw out are retained in the system, poisoning' the tissues and consequently destroying their vitality. When people return to the natural way of living, death will he postponed, and the «pan of life increased, and life will he happier.and more worth living. But it cannot he too strenuously emphasised that the simple laws of Nature must he allowed to operate naturally, and that nurgative medicines aid most harmful to the system. . According to our present- ideas of ‘‘civilisation,” if the laws of Nature operate at all -they do as a result of some artificial circumstance called habit. The child is taught to eat and to excrete, at a certain time and in a certain manner so that an artificial, habit is formed. BACK TO NATURE. But. as I have already explained, the body works by natural reflexes, which

if controlled hy a. had education cease to act- normally. We must return to the natural. We must get. hack' to the primitive methods of life, for only by so doing shall we give Nature the chance to have her perfect way. And Nature’s perfect way is the way of true health and long life.