A DOCTOR’S ADVICE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 June 1925, Page 3

A DOCTOR’S ADVICE.

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 Jive, say, to ninety: Visit the dentist every six months. Eat meat once a day omy. Never 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 mail of 45 or 50 should 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. Thomson, Medical Officer of Health, speaking at the Nation’s Food Exhibition at Olympia, London, recently. Taking as his subject “Food and Fitness at Forty,” he 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, active middle age until 70, with yet another 20 years of comfortable life to dook forward to.

The chronic bon viveur, the gay Lothario, the glutton, and. wine-bibber who died early was a suicide. To be (it at 40, and to enter into a joyous middle age it was necessary to take 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 he bald, deaf, stiff in the muscle's, obese, with teeth going, and some varicose veins. When they added to over-in-dulgence in food and drink the strain of social and business ambitions, worry, anger and grief, then their errors were followed bv structural changes in the organs. The macl 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 memory, an elastic step, an unirritated brain, resilient and elastic arteries, and a green old age as their reward.