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

.enrrKy and Heat Combined Help 10
barn Away th. Hodiiy Tissue. nat
fresh Material ~ Constantly ne
ing Supplied by nature.
you, Of course, believe, with the rest
OF the world, that every seven years
nature, up 10 certain age, sup.
plies you with practically new body
that every seven years, when you have
wasted by ordinary natural processes
the muscles tissues and Abers Of your
body, you have given TO you quite a
new outfit TO enable you to carry on
life, barring accident and disease, for
toe next seven years.
There Is not Il minute atom Of youf
,dy from the crown Of your head to
he soe of your foot but what Is prac
0ically undergoing process OF burning.
10th night and day" said the celebrat.
u lecturer on anatomy Professor Lo-
eau. while you a.r ,Dking at ne
now am being burned to ashes" con,
tnued the professor.
Mature IL never stationary or inac
tive. The body spends It's 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 exrcnd heat by respiration and
pcrspiratlon. Motion Is energy, aud
energy motion Now, the daily aver
age income of energy as created by the
human body on ordinary diet Is cal.
culated ut about 1900 pounds avoIrdu.
pols. That quantity Of energy repre-.
sents our daily storage in the ordinary,
active. healthy body.
How is this ZOO pounds OF energy
spent by each human body? II will
surprise you, perhaps, TO be told that
all our muscular work done In a day
only requires about 3l5 pounds Of this
1900 pounds and that the remainder
becomes, as II 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
10 burn our tissue, and fresh Is being
supplied by nature, just as 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 a 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
t. The phrase getting up steam, so
often used In a jocular sense, is another
truth but little understood. Our body
Is never done getting up steam, and
this steam is our propelIing power, by
which we are able to get about our
work and by which the brain Is able
to keep up It's rush OF ideas, Let ma
ture stop getting up steam and we
have a 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 In.
splre and there is nothing to provide
for the radiation and evaporation Of
different molstures from the skin.
Brain workers give of greater
amount of heat than physical workers;
hence they are more liable to collapse.
Their expenditure exceeds income, AMI
the result is bankruptcy. They arn
obliged to lie up till they can obtain
more capltal--in other words. they have
been consumed by the fire Of the body
at u quicker rate than 1t takes nature
to supply quantity Of fresh tissue
and muscle.
"Thc ages of twenU-one, twenty
eight, thlry-five and forty-two are the
most critical periods of persons life
time, for at about these ages nature
will have fitted the body out with new
raw materials.
"a child Of seven has different hair
and eyes from those which K had when
It was born. There's the proof."-New