How Long Will You Live?

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 3

How Long Will You Live?

READY RECKONER TEST Here is a test which, if answered conscientiously, may give you some idea of how long you may expect to live, claims a writer in the Cape Times. It should not, naturally, be regarded in the light of a prophecy, but it will give vou a rough general indication. The 15 questions contain sound pointers on the ordering of your life, and if you discover that you have not as long to run as you would like, the remedy is here to read. The questions are based on Tecent psychological and medical research, and in merely answering them you will get a little healthy mental exercise. This is what you have to do: Give yourself marks for each question as instructed, and keep the score. When you have answered all of them, add the total. Divid-e this total by five, and the result will be approximately bow long you have to live. 1. How old were your grandmothers and grandfathers (on both sides of your family) when they died? Add up their ages when they died, and divide by 10. If any of them are still alive, set their age down as 70. If you can't axactly remember the ages, guess as closely as possible. 2. Mark yourself from one to 25 on the basis of the health of your vital organs (heart, lungs, stomach, liver, blood, glands, etc.). If you have any organic disease or vital defect do not mark yourself higher than 10. If you’ve never had anything but colds, measles, etc., and never been in a hospital or ill for more than a few days, you may put down 25. 3. Mark down from one to 25 the degree of hazard or danger in your occupation or activities. If you drivo a car take off five at once. If you travel much take off another five. If you work at any occupation with life risk, take off another five. If you are somewhat of a reckless temperament, take off another.

4. Mark down from one to 25 how sedentary your work and habits are. If you sit in an office or stand in a shop all day, or stay at home without much physical work to do, you cannot mark yourself higher thau 10. 5. How many hours per week can you honestly say that you spend outdoors (don't mark more than 25 in any circumstances).

C. Mark yourself from one to 25 on moderation in eating. If you eat meat more than once a day, you can't mark yourself more than 10, nor if you are frequently subject to indigestion, constipation, biliousness, or headaches. 7. Mark down, how many pounds under Hi stone you weigh (if you are a man), and how many pounds under 10 stone (if you are a woman). If you weigh more than these figures penalise yourself by subtracting from your figure for question G the number of pounds you weigh above 11J stone or 10 stone.

8. How many glasses of aloholicdrinks can you honestly say you drink on the average during a week? Subtract this figure from 35 and mark down the result. If the number of drinks per week is more than 35, subtract this number from your figure for question 7. Mark yourself from one to 25 for your ability to relax or habits of relaxation. If you are one of those who do not or find it difficult to relax, theu you caunot mark yourself higher than five.

10. How many diversions or hobbies have you which you use for relaxation? Count only those which either take you in the open air or do not require stiff posture or tension, and which make you do things that are different from your regular activities. (Bridge or parties, or lodges and organisations, or night clubs, etc., are not to be included, as * they require a certain amount of mental, social, or muscular tension.)

11. How many hours of sleep do you get every night before 3 a.m.? Multiply this figure by five. 12. How many hours per week of athletic exercise do you take? 13. How many cups of coffee or tea per day do you drink? Subtract this number from 25.

13. How many cups of coffee or tea per day do you drink? Subtract this number from 25. 14. Mark yourself from one to 25 as to how much worrying you do habitually. If you are the kind of person who has a good deal of anxiety and has a habit of worrying, mark yourself no higher than five. Then take your figure and substract it from 25. 15. Mark yourself from one to 25 according to how much love and affection you feel for one or more of the opposite sex, or for children, or for people in general, or for life as a whole. (You can choose which, according to which rates highest.) If you are one of those who are not deeply, emotionally interested in any of these and are cynical about life, put down zero.