Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-30
LIVE 100 YEARS
BY PROPER FOOD AND EXERCISE
THE AVERAGE MAN MAY At
TAIN CENTURY MARK.
Prominent English Physician Dis
eusses the Problem of Longevity
His Rules Are Principally a List of
Don'ts to be Followed From Birth.

SuSseS tne Froplem OF Longevity
His Rules Are Principally a List o
Don'ts to be Followed From Birth.
Food Of the proper quality and
quantity, exercise of the proper nature
and reasonable care of the body, is
according to an eminent English au
thority, sufficient to insure a life OF
100 years to the ordinarily strong and
robust individual In fact Sir Herman
Weber, M. D. F. R. c. P. in recent
lecture before the Royal College OF
Physicians and Surgeons, made the
somewhat startling announcement that
most people might attain that unusual
age.
Comin from an authority so emf
nent and SO highly esteemed this adj
vice must be given due credibility. In
discussing the problem DR.. Weber lays
down many rules His lecture is in
part as follows:
The subject of the prolongation of
life is a very large one, especially
If considered with regard to the
whole population from infancy on.
ward. The dinlinution of infant
mortality and the improvement of the
hygienic conditions of towns and
houses have raised and will continue
to raise the average duration of life.
Here is a wild field of usefulness,
and one of the most important sec
tons of it will be the combat with
the various forms of pathogenic mi
crobes, in which men have rendered
immortal services to humanity And,
besides, the physical education Of the
entire population, which ought to
com mence in the nursery and ought
to be insisted upon at all schools,
public and private, will not only con-
tribute to the prolongation of life
but improve the whole race. Our
grandchildren ought not to hear any
more of the deterioration in the
soldiers, the professions or trades.
We are therefore justified in as
suming that although life is usually
limited to eighty years it may oc-
casslonly be prolonged to one hundred
and even more through the operation
of careful training. BY carefully study
ing these agencies We may sometimes
succeed in prolonging life TO the limit
natural to the human species.
Habits of the Long Lived.
Some of the most long lived persons
have led injudicious lives, and great
longevity occurs occasionally under
the most different circumstances. AT
ter having carefully entered into the
records of more than one hundred
cases of very long lived persons,
have reason to say that by far the ma
jority of them were temperate, were
small meat eaters, lived much in the
open air, and led an active life. Many
of them lived a life of toll with great
restrictions as to food and comforts,
while most of them were early risers
and great number OF them had a
joyful disposition and performed their
work cheerfully. Only few were in
temperate or idle and lazy persons.
Death from old age is caused by a
kind Of atrophy of the tissues and or
gans connected with the changes in
the blood vessels We must counter
act this tendency by supplying the It's
sues and organs with healthy blood.
To do so we must endeayor to produce
healthy state of the blood and to
maintain the blood vessels and lynn
phatics in sound and vigorous condi-
ton. Life, we may say, depends to a
great extent on the state of the Or
gans of circulation. If we review the
| different means in our power to pre-
vent early decay and to keep the cir
culatory system in healthy condition
we find that the most efficacious are
given by the different forms of exer-
| else.
Walking is the most natural form of
exercise. The action of the heart and
the breathing are accelerated thereby,
and more blood is passed into the
contract more frequently and carry
with it greater energy to the different
organs and tissues. At the same time
the number and depth of inspirations
are increased more oxygen is taken
up and more carbonic acid is given
out Walking, however, does not only
act directly on the heart, but by the
action of the muscles of the legs more
blood is attracted to them and all diff
| ferent vessels of the lower extremities
carry away more blood from the heart.
and the different vessels, the veins and
! lymphatics, carry more blood back to
the heart and force it to contract more
energetically.
The Weekend Holiday.
It is of great use for those who are
still in fair vigor to take regularly
once e week, a day of more pronounc.
ed exercise up to four and six hours
and those who live in town ought to
spend this day of extra exercise in the
country if possible, on account of the
purer air and the change Of scene
The benefit of such long walk is in.
creased if only a very small quantity
of fluid and food be taken during the
wall-for instance, a sandwich or a
few biscuits and an apple or an or.
ange. One of the visible effects OF
such walk, combined with restrict
ed taking in, is that the body loses
mostly between two and seven pounds
during the walk. The weight lost on
the long walk is usually regained with,
in two or three days.
One of the great advantages of sew
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