A LONG LIFE
It is always interesting to hear to what fact very elderly people attribute their long lives, but it is also very confusing. Some have no rules for health, some attribute their hundred years to abstention from this and that, while others say these .were the very things that kept them alive. This shows that we are not all built alike. The mfi who knows that there is something radically wrong takes care that he does nothing to aggravate his condition. Thus he lives long and learns to suit his tastes to his capacity. Digestion offers a pretty clear guide to the, general health. It is easily upset in old age and has a poor power of recovery. Elderly people should eat sufficient and no more, and should choose only the foodstuffs which they know they can digest. The diet should not be an eccentric one—but an ordinary well-mixed one, tending to diminish in quantity as age advances.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 7 (Supplement)
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