Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-12-08
A ROAD TO HEALTH
Eat Less and Walk More if You
Are Losing All Your Vim.
JUST GIVE NATURE A CHANCE.
That Wonderful Old Doctor 10 Always
Ready and Willing to Be Your Friend
and viii Produce Magical Results il
His Laws Are Oheyed.

and Will Produce Magical Results il
His Laws Are Ohsysd.
A man on the shady side Of forty
thought he was going into a decline,
He went to his physician, submitted to
a thorough examination and waited the
word which was TO consign him TO the
scrap heap.
This Is what the doctor, who happen
ed to he a modern physician. told him
two or three days later:
You eat too much, drink too much.
sit around too much and walk too lit
tie / am going to put you on a rigid
diet, and l want you TO walk-walk-
walk"
The man who thought he was going
into a decline demurred at the doctors
suggestion OF Il rigid diet The diet
prescribed consisted Of milk-only milk
and the mRn who saw visions OF the
scrap heap loved his 'vittles," but he
decided 10 follow the doctors orders.
He stuck to the rigid diet.
And be made It a practice to walk
two miles u the office every morning,
rain or shine. The ease with which be
acquired ii scOrn for the street car after
81 week or two astonished him.
At the end of a week Of dieting and
walking. this man began TO look upon
life with different eyes His work.
which had been a burden, began 70 as
sumo an attractive glow. At the end OF
two weeks. with a modified but still
skinny diet. and more walking, he be
gan to catch himself In the act Of run
ming up the stairs instead Of dragging
himself up by main force. At the end
II four weeks OF this treatment, with
ont taking drop Of medicine OF sin
gle pin. he felt as II ten years had rolled
of his shoulders.
The average New York man who
works at desk eats too much II he does
not drink too much lie sits around
too much and walks altogether too lit
tie And what is true Of the average
New Yorker i true Of the average
American Too much food. too much
drink and too much sitting around are
the unholy trinity Of our national de-
Utilization. We are becoming physically
fabby aud mentally drowsy We are
beginning 10 nod In the armchair.
Oyerudulgence has done it-that sys-
tenn II self pampering which Or John
H. Quale Of Cleveland calls twentieth
century habits"
Most of these twentieth century hab-
its have 10 do with the stomach In
solne languages a piece Of basic philoso-
play has been crystalhzei. Ike fy in
amber ia the homely phrase. Il have
tie beartache when stomach ache IS
meant That phrase is an unconscious
recognition OF the facrthat the stomach
is the center OF the human system.
The Importance Of the stomach has
been reco guized hy the earliest law
givers and thinkers Of the human race
The dietary regulations OF the law OF
Moses were a farsighted attempt TO
make the food Of a historic nation con
form 10 the laws Of nature Legislat,
ius for peoples living under condi-
tlHUs similar 10 those under which the
jew lived. Mohammed. another of the
world S great iawgiyers. embodied in
the Koran a good deal that be found
in the Taimpd on the subject OF eating
and drinAiug
Moses pat the children Of Israel on
a diet Mohammed put the Arabs on
diet
Business and professional America
Ought - go GA diet and stay there
for awhile
Nature is the greatest Of all physi-