NEGLECTED HEALTH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 15

NEGLECTED HEALTH

EFFECTS IN MIDDLE AGE MEDICAL MAN'S WARNING • LONDON, Jan. 20 Dr. Leonard Williams, 76 year? of age, at a Health Club luncheon, drey horrifying pictures of middle-aged persons, male arid female,, who neglect their health. His portrait of- the mal« was:— -• ... "A bald-headed, obese, bibulous, gluttonous, smoke-sucking beast, who deserves all the gout, high bltiod pressure and arthritis he;gets." i .m • X His portrait of the female was:-—•. "A paint-bedizened, cocktailing, brjdijeplaying, smoking, shapeless fjoiiiidatrwho disfigures race meetings and : '-tSetfrqafc row of the stalls." ■> - —"- 1 * ■ Dr. Williams declared that 90 per cent of a man's dt(© to self-indulgence: a woman's' wis 'dite^to - - yr. The man who learning how to keep nt was i a fooj. It was as necessary to be : - : pars:'imoni< nl* about food as to be prodigal fresh As greed aged a man, sojife&ir pf arovr--ing. old aged a woman, Be philosophical!" he said. "Be/ sure that your eyesight and hearing;^eVto>o|i.! "Bad sight gives woman jcrow's feet: they frown at their best ineflds,|ti;fir hair prematurely turns grsy, digestion, like their temper, hbeComes: difficult." The chairman, Sir WiHiS(£ii Crawford, who is 59, said: "It is the- state of mind that matters. I-nevei*^started jto live until I was 40. Xow~ 1 feel 22." —' . j