LIVING TO NINETY.
RULES FOR MIDDLE-AGED. or A man of fifty-five has no right to bo bald, deaf, stiff in the muscles, with his teeth going, and varicose veins, declared the medical officer of health for Deptford, Dr. C. S. Thomson, D.P.H., at the Nation's Food Exhibition, Olympia, recently. The chronic bon vivcur, the gay Lothario, the glutton and wine-bibber who dies early is a suicide, he said.
"When we add to over-indulgence in food and drink the strain of social and business ambitions, worry, anger and grief, then our errors are followed by structural changes in our organs. The mad and ineffectual race for life becomes the triumphant race for death.
"Every man of forty who would live to ninety must eat fresh, foods, and give up the fancy cooking which wrecked the vitamines. Intake must be cut down, plenty of water should be drunk between meals, from time to time there should be a fast for a day, and one should walk three miles dailv.''
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Northern Advocate, 20 June 1925, Page 9 (Supplement)
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