SECRETS OF LONG LIFE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17535, 31 March 1919, Page 3

SECRETS OF LONG LIFE

CAN WE ALL BE CENTENARIANS''

"Death under hfly or sixty years of age has got to be prevented or avoided siud Sir George Newman recently. Why should Sir George Newman limit the age at sixty ? Seeing that sanitation and preventive medicine have *i ready rais-d the expectation of life at birth irom forty years in IS3B-54 ro fifty-one in 1908-iS. wijy should not people* live normally to be 100 or even, more ?

Scientists are agreed that tihore is nothing to lv.cvont the human body Uvi,,j_r -Hid enjoying the full possession cf it* ininliio; Vor an jndefiniate numh«>r of years. -ICO or even 1,000, nroyidi'ig disease jind waste matter are eliminated from the frame. Old age is caused by the gradual ,iccuinitiation of calcareous matter in 'he veirs. tissues, and joints, which lead fo stiffness, ossification, and eventually death, through the organs being unable to work. Eliminate this waste matter, which is mainly limo, and. if scientific theories are true, there is little to pre' vent you living indefinitely. This is the base cf all the methods of prolonging life, such a-s the drinking of sour milk, which lias the *>roDerty ~f dissolving lime in the system. The apple, which, curiously enough, is popaIsirly sunpos-ed to be the "tree cf life."' the fruit of which Adam and Eve "did e:it." has simi'rr nronerties. Btiddlust monks in Tibet undoubtedly live, and retain th"ir faculties to abnormal ajre-j, wbirh ihey attribute Ut their snav-e dvt. of apples and vi^e. Hindu fakirs d»? c'j'rp that youthfiihiess of body, not *;f mind, can h°. retained io any age by frequent baths in diluted glacial ac'et^e ;.'cid. These acid baths certainly dh--oh'e lime and calrareons matter, and i*- is noteworthy that apples contain a. ijiinntitv of this chemical. Michael Anwho died through an accident at ninoty-three. declared^ that eating grapes and drinking wine was the .secret of his unimpaired vitality.