The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-12
YOU ARE BURNING UP
A HUMAN BEING LITERALLY LIVES BV
BEING CONSUMED ALIVE.

Energy and Heat Combined Help 4
Burn Away the Bodily Tissue. az
Fresh Material IL Constantly BE
ing Supplied by Nature.
You, of course, believe, with the re,
Of the world, that every seven year
nature, up TO certain age. SUI
plies you with practically a new body
that every seven years, when you hav
wasted by ordinary natural processe
the muscles. tissues and fibers Of you
body, you have given TO you quite
new outfit to enable you to carry o.
life, barring accident and disease, 70
the next seven years.
There Is not minute atom OF you
body from the crown Of your head {,
the sole Of your foot but what is prac
tically undergoing process Of burning
both night and day" said the celebrat
Cd lecturer on anatomy, Professor Lo
reau. while you are looking at IN,
now am being burned to ashes" con
tnued the professor.
Mature Is never stationary or lnac
tive. The body spends its energy IN
the way OF physical labor and In the
constant emission Of heat. the former
method comprising waste that occurs
through muscular work entailed by, for
Instance, moving the body on itself,
walking, speaking, shouting. singing,
breathing and In the action OF the heart
and by mental activity. though each ef.
fort be slight.
I'VE expcnd heat by respiration aud
perspiration. Motion is energy, and
energy motion. Now, the daily aver
age income Of energy as created by the
human body on ordinary diet is cal
culated at about 1900 pounds avoirdu-
pois. That quantity of energy repre-
sents our daily storage In the ordinary,
active, healthy body.
How is this 1900 pounds of energy
spent by each human body? 1t will
surprise you. perhaps, TO be told that
all our muscular work done in day
only requires about 3l5 pounds of this
Zoo pounds and that the remainder
becomes, as ii We're evaporated and is
being constantly thrown off by the
body in the way of heat.
I'VE literally live by being burned
alive Energy and heat combined help
to burn our tissue, and fresh is being
supplied by nature. just as a new
building is built on the site of one
which has been burned down.
You have heard of the man who
gets warmed to his work. and that,
being warmed everything goes on
satisfactorily, like house on fire.
That is literally what happens to every
human creature, for his house is al |
ways on fire, though the real meaning
Of the descriptive phrase is not always
rightly understood by those who utter
II. The phrase getting up steam,' SO
often used in jocular sense, is another
truth but little understood. Our body
is never done getting up steam, and |
this steam Is our propelling power. by !
which we are able to get about our
work and by which the brain is able
to keep up its rush of ideas. Let ma
ture stop getting up steam and we
have nervous collapse.
with plenty of steam We can fire
away; without it we run down There
Is nothing to keep our body warm,
nothing to warm our food. nothing TO
warm and render moist the air we III
;pire and there is nothing to provide
Tor the radiation and evaporation Of
lifferent moistures from the skin.
Brain workers give off a greater
amount of heat than physical workers;
fence they are more liable to collapse.
Their expenditure exceeds income, and
he result is bankruptcy. They are
obliged to lie up till they can obtain
more capital-in other words, they have
,een consumed by the fire Of the body
It a quicker rate than it takes nature
o supply quantity Of fresh tissue
md muscle.
''The ages Of twenty-One, twenty
light, thirty-five and forty-two are the
most critical periods of persons life
ime, for at about these ages nature
will have fitted the body out with new
aw materials.
"A child of seven has different hair
md eyes from those which Il had when
/ was born. There's the proof. New
fork News. :