NO NEED TO DIE

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14255, 5 January 1920, Page 7

NO NEED TO DIE

LEAVE OFF, MEAT-EATING.-ONIONS BETTER THAN DRUGS. "If Americans want to stay young and live a century they must rid themselves of Chicago's meat industry. Chicago is the curse of America. Her meat products, shorten the lives of Americans hy decades. By this I mean that people who want to live a century muit not eat meat —especially the highly proteid meats, as produced by Chicago."

Dr Josiah Oldfleld' England's "you»gest" man—he is nearly 90— laid down this rule to-day, when he told me the secret of perpetual youth (writes Forbes Fairbairn, in an exchange of November 15). Dr. Oldfleld is the most remarkable young-old man in England. He has not reached his great age—in years—by accident, but as a result of a carefully-planned and carefully-lived life. When I saw him this afternoon he had just returned home from a long country hike, dressed in a rough tweed coat and military breeches. He was formr-ly a colonel in the British Army, and served four years during the war, mostly on horseback. He wore soft stockings, mud-cover-ed boots and gloves, and carried a walking staff. He wore no hat. He is in charge of the only fruitarian hospital in the world—Lady Margaret's Hospital at jßromley, Kent, 20 miles south-east of ! London, which he founded in 1903.

,Th« hospital numbers among its patrons and. patronesses many of the most widely-known persons in Britain. Started System Early. Dr. Oldfleld started his system of "right living" when an undergraduate of Oxford, and has kept it up ev«r since. . Ruddy-cheeked, clear-eyed, quickstepping, lithe and muscular, he stamped into the room, redolent of the freshness of the Kent countryside. "Pretty good for an old man of nearly 100, what?" he asked, smilingly. "So you want me to tell Americans how to live-long, eh?" "Tell them to wipe out Chicago stockyards flrst, but at he same time I don'it want to tell people how to live ,

long if they are going to do harm; I would rather they died young—many would want to perpetuate the excesses of youth. "Seriously, the whole secret of perpetual youth is a complete supply of food to all the cells of the body, combined with ridding the cells of all waste matter. "To accomplish this you must first cut out food giving excess proteids, and cut down cereals, including bread, and eat less sodium or common salt.

Second, eat plenteously of food containing potassium salts. You will find these in all kinds of salads. "Watercress is one of the best elixirs of life. Consume more organic acids, which are best obtained from grapes,! raisins, oranges, apples and citrons. I Acids remove waste from the arteries, I

soften them and reopen the blood ves- ■ sels. Any man showing signs of old age should take three months of this diet . and he would kecome young again. Onions Most Healthful. "Lastly, eat raw scalhons, garlic ami onions—the greatest intestinal cell antiseptics in the world, without being destructive like drugs. They will cure the most malignant skia and blood diseases known. Two ounces of garlic daily Is the greatest preventive of old age. "Another great fault of mankind is that all drink too much. I don't mean

alcoholic beverages, but too much water, tea, coffee and milk, besides beer, wine and spirits. It is not what 5s drunk, but how much. Too much fluid lessens a man's power of resistance. "For instance, things growing wet develop rapidly and then die. Look at the water lily. Things growing in dry places take longer to mature, are healthier and live longer. Look at the oak. The same principles apply to human beings. "I am not for Prohibition —I believe : n wine and beer. Every man and woman of more than 50 should have a

glass of wine daily; It dilates the capillaries of the hody, preventing the i closing of blood vessels. A glass of beer daily helps a person after 40. Hard drink Is wholly bad. lam against alcohol in any form for anyone under ,;*; 't is unnecessary. "Wet Propaganda." "netting drunk once a month docs not hurt —eating the greatest steak once a month does not hurt—but tn steady drinker and mest-eater wears down the body's vitality, fills his cells with waste matters iuid hardens the arteries. • "My view is that man should gradullv increase in his strenirthand stamina, building up all his vital powers unti he is 30. The next 40 years should see a gradual decline of Hie physical and mental powers, combined with increasing perception of the spiritual mys tcrics. "At the age of 100 to 130, a man

should painlessly, quietly and restfully pass on to his new sphere of birth, starting again where the body is not needed. "Theoretically a man, if he followed out these suggestions, could live for ever —keeping- the cells of the body young and virile. "Practically, however, it is extremely difficult, because man refuses to live according to rules—simple as these rules are. The amoeba, the lowest form of a single cell, lives for ever. Man can do the same."