HOW TO LIVE TO BE NINETY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 167, 20 June 1925, Page 14

HOW TO LIVE TO BE NINETY.

MEASURES THE MAN OF SHOULD TAKE. A man .should observe the following rules if, when he has reached the ago of forty, he desires to live, say, ninety:— Visit the dentist every six months. Eat meat once a day only. Never lake alcohol‘nefore 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 lune, drinking lots of alkaline fluid, such as Vichy water. .V brain worker should not take a heavy lunch at one o’clock. A man of 45 or s<> should eschew! afternoon tea. At tiie 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 1 son. Medical Officer of Health, speaking 1 at the Nation;;-’ Food Exhibition, Olyin-j pia, 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 look forward to. The chronic bon viveur, the gay Lothario, the glutton, and wine Bibber who died early was a suicide. To be lit 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 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 and grief, then their errors were followed by structural changes in the organs. The mad and ineffectual race for lite 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.