The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05
HEALTH AND Diet.
Adjust Food to Work
If You Would Live
Long.
WORRY SHOUTENS LIFE.
And So Do High Temper
And Strong Resent
mentS.
WORRY SHORTENS LIFE.

Joseph Adolphus, NJ. D., writes of
growing old, in the Wisconsin Medical
Recorder:
We are learning the value of the
classification of food into animal and
VEGETABLE and our knowledge is leading
us to d more accurate understanding
of the laws of dietetics and the proper
means of preventing disease and curing
our sick bodies by proper diet Our
more extended knowledge is aiding us
in selecting and preparing foods for
the periods of infancy childhood ado
lescence and old age. We are learning
to adjust food to work, mental and
physical. Nearly all old people have
been good feeders, but never german
offers. Nearly all old people are care
full about their food; seldom have l
seen old persons large eaters of ami
NAL food; many eat largely of Vegeta-
BILE food and are careful as to eating
the food that agrees best with them.
Some eat heartily of fats, and many
have been great bread and butter eat
vegetable and our knowledge is leading
ers. | am one of this kind; in fact, l
eat twice as much bread as of any other
food.
l know man now Sc years old, VINO
lives mostly on bread and buttermllk;
never eats later than two hours before
going to bed has pretty good control
over his temper, is never enthusiastic,
takes a sober view of the matters OF
life. never has allowed himself to hold
a grudge nor harbor ill-feelingS any
length Of time against any person. l
have never known a person of nigh
temper and strong resentments to be
old in years. An even temper conspires
very much to cause long life. Worry
over affairs of life causes ill-health
and shortens life. Some of the strong
est and most vigorous persons l have
known have died before reaching sixty
years. Many persons who have lived
to seventy years or over, have been OF
delicate constitution, yet, in a meas
ure, tough and capable of endurance;
but others have been more feeble in
health and obliged to take care to
avoid getting sick. l have known many
such persons to miss several meals
when they are feeling out of sorts, to
starVe off sickness, and live sparingly
| during these times on light food, drink
| abundance of water, keep the kidneys
! permeaDle and take plenty of rest in
\ bed, and be much in the open air
| have seldom known persons addict
ed to alcoholic and fermented beverages
! to live to sixty years. Nearly all my
| old acquaintance have been very spar
! ing drinkers of alcoholic and ferment-
/ ed liquors; only very seldom have any
| INDUCED, and many never. l have
/ known several persons Of splendid in
tellects to be total abstainers. think
those vino take occasional sprees are
ort-liyed, but an occasional one may
live till seventy years. l have known
men of very bright intellects to burn
out and die early. who, | believe, would
have lived into old age had they not
been addicted to an occasional social
good time. have known many men of
splendid education and fine learning,
industrious students all their lives, to
live till seventy-five years, but these
men had acquired by instinct the art
| of conserving their health at the time
of feeling, i'll. or when their digestive
powers were enfeebled by hard work
! and severe study.