The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-01-08
YOU ARE BURNING UP
4 HUMAN eElNQ LITERALLY LIVES BY
BEING CONSUMED ALIVE.

~"''Ay nv" hTht tbmDiuru uefp
u Burn Away the bodily Tiaaur. aa
q Fresh Material IN Constantly n,
ing supplied by Nature.
o You, Of course. believe, with the re-
y Of the world that every seven ycai
r. nature, up 10 certain age, SUI
plies you with practically new body
that every seven years, when you hay
wasted By ordinary natural proccsac
the muscles. tissues and Abcra Of you
body, you have given to you quite
new outfit to enable you 10 carry o
life. barring accident and disease. H.
toe next seven years.
There N not minute atom Of you
body from the crown Of your head &
the soM of your foot but what IL prac
ucally undergoing n process of burning
both night and day" said the celebrat
cd lecturer on anatomy, Professor Lo
reau. While you are looking at me
now | am being burned to ashes" con
unucd the professor.
Mature Ia never stationary or mac
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 aud in the action OF the heart
and by mental activity. though each ef.
fort be slight
I'VE cxpcnd heat by respiration and
pcrspIration, Motion IL energy, and
energy motion. Now, the daily aver
nge income Of energy as created by the
human body on ordinary diet Is cal.
culated at about 900 pounds avolrdu.
pois That quantity Of energy repre-
scnts our daily storage in the ordinary,
active. healthy body.
How Is this 2,200 pounds OF energy
spent by each human body7 1t will
surprise you, perhaps, to be told that
all our muscular work done In n day
only requires about 3l5 pounds Of this
1900 pounds and that the remainder
becomes, ms It were, 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 bcInp |
supplied by nature. just as new
building ls 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 n house on fire.
That Is literally what happens to every
human creature for his house Is nj.
ways on fire. though the real meaning
Of the descriptive phrase Is not always
rightly understood by those who utter
t. The phrase getting up steam,' so
)ftcn used in jocular sense, Is another
ruth but little understood. Our body
$ never done getting up steam, and ,
his steam Is our propelling power, by
which we Nre able to get about our
work and 10y which the brain is able
o keep up It's rush OF ideas. Let ma
ure stop getting up steam and we
ave nervous collapse.
"WIth plenty Of steam we can fire
way; without it we run down. There |
5 nothing TO keep our body warm, I
othing 10 warm our food, nothing to
warm ana render moist the air we in
plrc and there Is nothing to provide
or the radiation and evaporation Of
itiercnt molStures from the skin. Il
brain workers give Off grcattl "
mount of beat than physical workers; II
ence they are more liable to collapse Il
heir expenditure exceeds income, and
le result Is bankruptcy. They ara
bliged to lie up till they can obtain ,
lore capltal--in other words, they have II
cen consumed by the fire Of the body tC
! a quicker rate than 1t takes nature re
} supply quantity of fresh tissue b.
1d muscle. n,
"The ages Of twenty-one, twenty. !,
ght thirV-fve and forty-two are the ="
ost critical periods Of persons life. m
me, for at about these ages nature II
III have fitted the body out with new tn
w materials. Sc
"a child Of seven has different hair
I'd eyes from those which IL had when -
was born. There's the proof."-New -
)rk News. y'