The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-12-19


and proportioning food SO as to remove
the causes of disease. This subject
however, will be discussed more thor
oughly In the latter part of this SERIES
What desire now is to point out the
results of mans bad habits or lack OF
attention and obedience ia the funda-
mental laws above named,
Nearly all animals on this globe ex-
cept man live under normal conditions
about eight times their respective perl
DDS of maturity. A horse, dog or COW
that will obtain its growth in four
years will live under ordinary condi-
tons about thirty-two years. This rule
applies especially to all anthropoidal
and quadruped specimens.
Life Needlessly Shortened.
Man natures or gets his growth at
about twenty-four years. Measured,
therefore. by the scale governing the
lives of all other animals, he ought to
live eight times twenty-four. or about
200 years: but, reckoning from the age
of six, which takes him out of the In
FAINT class. man dies at fraction over
thirty-eight years Of age, which Is
about one-fifth his natural period OF
life, while IL we calculate from his
birth his period of existence In all CIV
ilized countries is brought down to less
than thirty-two years.
Man drinks the same water, lives
under the same sunshine ms his brother
animals, but differs from them mainly
In his food, air and exercise, the three
fundamental laws above referred to-.
II Is fair to assume that man is no ex-
ception to the general laws governing
all other animals-that is to say, II ne
did not commit some very grave err
rors he would live his normal period
of years, as perhaps did his ancient an
cestors.
Man has greatly increased the pro-
ductivity of labor by invention and the
productivity OF the soil by the science
of agriculture He has almost con-
ouered the air and carried the transpor-
tation Of intelligence (talklng through
the air) to It's limit, but he has forgot
ten himself. In fact just TO the extent
that he has progressed In all the other
sciences he has retrogressed In the SCI
ence OF preserving his own health
: Whore Science Has Failed.
Man is entitled by Inheritance to live
200 years. Science therefore can boast
only when 1t has carried him beyond
, this period. II he had given as much
attention to the science OF health as he
has 10 that of mechanics and the ac-
cumulatlon Of wealth there Is every
reason to believe that he could have
doubled his present period OF life OF
perhaps brought It up to or beyond the
200 year mark.
The difference between youth ana
age is. in fact, only a chemical DIFF
ference. The differences between tne
stiff and flexible cartilage, the hard
and soft artery, the normal and irritat'
ed nerve. the rich hemoglobin (red) and
thin blood. the black and white hair
are only chemical differences, Ihey
represent deposits, things taken Into
the body which in some way the pouy
could not cast out
II man had studied his construction
and maintenance and made OF them
true science these chemical differences
could have been known and their
causes removed. and man would per
haps today be in possession OF his
birthrieht of 200 years. IL he had car.
ried the science OF physiological
chemistry and food chemistry to the
same degree OF development that he
has carried Industrial chemistry nc
doubt he would be able to prolong his
life even beyond the 200 year mark.
Vegetable Diet Ideal.
Rnt hIa nntinp has been hnnhnZard