NO NEED TO DIE !

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 16, 2 January 1920, Page 3

NO NEED TO DIE !

LEAVE OFF MEAT-EATING

ONIONS BETTER THAN DRUGS.

"If American* want to stay young and live a century they must rid themselves of Chicago's meat industry. Chicago is the curse of America. Her meat product* shorten the lives of American* by decade*. By this 1 mean that people who want to live a century must not eat meat —especially the highly proteid meats, as produced by Chicago.” Dr- Josiah Oldfield, England’s “youngest” man—he is nearly 90 —laid down this rule to-day, when he told me the secret of perpetual youth (writes Forbes Fairburn, in an exchange of November 15.) Dr. Oldfield is the most remarkable young old man in England- He has not reached his great ago—in years—bv accident, but as a result of carefully-planned and carefully -lived life. When I saw him this afternoon he bad just returned home from a long country hike, dressed in a rough tweed cont and military breeches. He was firrnsrly a colonel in the British Army, and served four years during mostly on horseback. lie wore golf stockings, mud-cover-ed boots and gloves, and carried a walking stick. He wore no hat. He is ir cnarge of the only fruitarian hosfiiial in the world—Lady Margaret’s iospital at Bromley, Kent, 20 miles south-east of London, which he founded in 1903- The hospital numbers among its patrons and patronesses many of the most widely-known persons in Britain. SYSTEM STARTED EARLY.

Dr. Oldfield started his system of ‘‘right living” when an undergraduate of Oxford, and has kept it up ever since. Ruddy-cheeked, clear-eyed, quickstepping, lithe and muscular, he stamped into the room, redolent of the freshness of the Kent countryside. "Pretty good for an old man of nearly 100, what?” he asked smilingly. “So you want me to tell Americans how to live long, eh?” “Tell them to wipe out Chicago stockyards first, but at the same time I don’t want to tell people how to live long if they are going to do harm; 1 would rather they died young—many would want to perpetuate the excesses of youth. "Seriously, the whole secret of perpetual youth, is a complete supply of food to all the cells of the body, combined with ridding the cells of all waste matter.

**To accomplish this you must first cut out food giving excess proteids, and ent down cereals, including 'bread, and ent less sodium or common salt. Second, eat plenteously of food containing potassium salts- You will find these in all kinds of salads. Watercress is one of the best elixirs of life. Consume more organic acids, which are best obtained from grapes, raisins, oranges, apples and citronsAcids remove waste from the arteries, soften them and reopen the blood ve» seis. Any man showing signs of old •ge should take throe months of this diet and he would become young again. ONIONS MOST HEALTHFUL. "Lastly, eat raw scallions, garlic, and onions—the greatest intestinal cell antiseptics in the world, without being destructive like drugs. They will cure the most malignant skin and blood diseases known, 'two ounces of garlic daily is the greatest preventive of old age“Another great fault of mankind is that all drink too much. I don’t mean I alcoholic beverages, but too much 1 water, tea, coffee and milk, besides beer, wine and spirits. It is not what is drank, but how much. Too much fluid lessens a man’s power of resistance.

“For instance, things growing wet develop rapidly and then die. Look at the water lily. Things growing in dry place* take longer to mature, are healthier and live longer. Look at the oak. The same principles apply to human beings. “I am not for Prohibition—l behove in wine and beer- Every man and woman of more than 50 should have a ghn of wine daily; it dilates the capillaries of the body, preventing the closing of blood vessels. A glass of beer daily helps a person after 40. Hard drink is wholly bad. I am against alcohol in any form for anyone under 40; it is unnecessary. ‘ "WET PROPAGANDA.” “Getting drank once a month does not hurt—eating the greatest steak once a week does not hurt —but the stady drinker and meat eater wears down the body’s vitality, fills his cells with waste matters and hardens the arteries. ' ' "My view is that man should gradually increase in his strength and stamnia, building up all his cital powers until he is 30. The next 40 years should see a gradual decline of the physical and mental-powers, combined with increasing perception of the spiritual mysteries. , “At the age of 100 to 130, a man should painlessly, quietly and restfully pass on to his new sphere of birth, starting again where the body is not needed-

Theoretically a man, if he followed out these suggestions, could live for ever—keeping the cells of the body young and virile. . *T£ act ,‘ cal , Iy’ 1 y’ however, it is extremev wfficult, because man refuses to live according to rules —simple as these rules are. The the lowest term of a single cell, lives for ever. Man can do the same.”