MEN OVER FORTY”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 3, 25 October 1924, Page 6

MEN OVER FORTY”

DIET AND EXERCISE, Sydney, October 11. What should a man over id cat. and how should he exorcise? Dr. J. S. Purdy, City Medical Officer, and Or. Harvey Sutton, principal medical officer in the. Department of Education, let thp..;commercial travellers into a few tilings during the lunch hour yesterday. Dr. Purdy, said it did imt matter much what a man ate so, hmp; as h:s diet included, certain" protective foods coming under the head of vitamines. Fresh milk—not pasteuiised or boiled—lettuce,'white cabbage, and fruit were essentials hi a complete menu, particularly the vegetables and fruit. But over-eating in anything, not conducive to health.

“General Bird wood is one, of the most virile men 1 ever met. ’ DiPurdy remarked. “Peace or war, he rises early, retires late, and keeps up intense activity in between. He told me that he ascribed his virility to the fact that he.didn’t have the usual mid-day meal.”

Captain Cook’s feat in bringing a crow from the Old World to Botany Bay without a case of scurvy was cited by Dr. Purdy as showing the value of food containing vitamincs. Fruit, lie said, should be taken at every meal. EXTENSION OF LIFE. Dr. Harvey Sutton mentioned that for the first time in the world's history men over -)() years of age were now in the majority, the expectancy of life having been advanced IS years during the'last couple of generations. He assessed the capital value of the average professional man at about £17,001), and asked what were the limits to attention and care that would lie bestowed on a racehorse valued at that figure. Yet, he commented, most men wore indifferent as to their diet and oxer••rise. The fact had been, revealed in the astonishingly large percentage of rejects among the war recruits under conscription in Now Zealand. Every man in Australia who reached the age of 20 had an even-money chance of going on to 70. Dr. H arvey. Sutton commended surfing and swimming as ideal forms of exercise, hut, unfortunately, he said, the necessary facilities wore frequently absent. .There were only throe public swimming baths west of the Great Dividing Range, where over half a million people lived. If the same amount of research were applied to cancer and dental diseases, as had been to aviation and radio, both menaces would be under man’s control in less than five years.