Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-03-19
PREVENTION.

It is easy to live in good health. and
to be happy If one gets the right
start, because it then becomes simply
matter of continuing fixed habit,
which is the very easiest thing one
can do; for we consist essentially OF
an organism built up around group
of 6xed habits. all our fundamental
vital functions being fixed habits. But
if Won fail to secure the right start,
mover having experienced it, you find
the pursuit of health, Like the pursuit
of happiness, a vague, strenuous and
exceedingly unsatisfactory occupa-
ton, because you do not always Know
when YOU have either. The desired
coal ever appears to be something Just
q few paces ahead and seems always
TO dissolve and vanish like the "lii'o"
the wish lust as we would grasp it.
It is perfectly obvious that any ma
terial change for the worse IN ones
average state of health implies the
necessity for a change of ones hao'
it's. But so completely are we SUBJECT
70 natural laws that the first time any
now mint of view is affirmed there
inevitably must be opposition TO 1t.
II is the normal inertia OF the mind
which opposes such resistance just as
al, matter in nature is opposed to
every change in the direction OF It's
forces. But Notwithstanding the
psvchological phenomena when IN
fuence us all, the forces OF fact are
superior to every inertia and sooner
or later must conquer. But always
the pressure of material facts Is re-
onired to drive us forward to- change
and improvement. No real advance
can be made, except such as may be
related to some tangible and material
evidence whereby it is removed from
the domain of opinion into tnat OF
fact changed from subjective into OBJ
iective. To array facts. then. IN tneT
most comprehensive form Is without
| doubt the most direct road to the at
tainment of good health.
We know that from the instant or
| impregnation to complete develop
ment the human organism responds
to definite rhythmic growing impulses
each of which has its specific reason
and results both physical and chem
ical 1t should not be deemed at all
strange, then, that certain types
! should evidence definite tendencies all
through life
! Measurements Of a human infant
will show that the essential stature
that is, the length of the trunk anu
head compared with the total length
from the heels to the top Of the head
exceeds the length OF the legs. ana
the human infant is essentially feed
| ing animal. The first year tends ito
a maximum development of the sd1ges-
tive organs with corresponding IN
crease in body bulk and fat, but where
the subsequent development is normal
| maturity finds that a balances has :
taken place between these two sec
tons, and they have become relative
ly equal. However, where this condi-
ton of balanced development is not
found to exist we find an Individual
that either is robust or one that has
been arrested in morphological devel-
| Opment and retains the type and all
the tendencies Of a younger age, with
all its penalties, a condition which
makes it essential that these unfor-
tunate individuals, to maintain a reia'
tive healthy state of body. are COM
PEELED to submit themselves to, Z
severe hygienic regime throughout
their entire lives. Unfortunately.
our knowledge is not of character
that such steps are generally per-
| ceived to be necessary, and the inevl-
table end is not recognized until it has
become fact. These are the vic
Tins of govt. Chronic rheumatism
hemorrhoids and chronic liver, stom-
ach and bronchial difficulties. d. All the
vast array of-difficulties falling under
the head Of lithemia, an, excess OF
uric acid in the system, and supposed
to be due to defective elimination, are
without doubt to be attributed rather
to an excessive formation of these
clements in the system because Ola
constitutional slowing down irfa the
metabolic reactions from defective
construction in the beginning, grossly
aggravated by an imperfect and i'm"
properly balanced diet thereafter,
: rather than the result of something
j caught"
| The early recognition of these ten
denotes is the certain prevention OF
the development of a vast number OF
distressing conditions later in life and
strong argument for sane regime
/ in handling those already suffering
! from the natural results of a prior con
dition. This would appear to be the
reasonable explanation of the number
less bitter disappointments that have
followed every alleged cure for these
conditions since the very. dawn Of his
tory, and a strong reason why an ear
nest effort should be made for solu-
ton OF the problem along the lines
suggested by the work of our many
brilliant scientists. n st.,
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