The daily Alaskan., 1918-01-18
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 lS Always
 Ready and Willing to Be Your Friend
 and Will Produce Magical Results tt
 His Laws Are obeysd.
 A man on the shady side of forty thought he was going into a decline. He went to bis 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 be a modern physician, told him two or three days later:
 You eat too much, drink too much sit around too much and walk too It. tie. am going to put you on rlSid diet, and want you to walk-waK- walk"
 The man who thought he was going into decline demurred at the doctors suggestion of a rigid diet. The diet prescribed consisted of milk-only milk and the man who saw visions of the scrap heap loved his "vittles," but he decided to follow the doctors orders. He stuck to the rigid diet.
 And he made it a practice to walk two miles to the office every morning, rain or shine. The case with which he acquired a scorn for the street car after n week or two aStonishcd 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 q burden, began to as- sume an attractive glow. At the end or two weeks. with a modified but still skimpy diet. and more walking, he be- gan to catch himself in the net of rum ming up the stairs instead of dragging himself up by main force, At the end of four weeks ot this treatment, with out taking drop of medicine or a sin gle pill. he felt as if ten years had rolled Of his shoulders.
 The average New York man who works at desk eats too much If he does not drink too much. He sits around too much and walks altogether too It. tle. And what is true of the average New Yorker Is true of the average American. Too much food, too much drink and too much sitting around are the unhoIy trinity of our national de- Utilization. We are becoming physically fabby and mentally drowsy. We are beginning to nod in the armchair. Over!ndulg gence has done it-that sys- tenn of self pampering which Dr. John II. Quale of Cleveland calls twentieth century habits"
 Most of these twentieth century hab- its" have to do with the stomach. In | some languages a piece of basic philoso- 1 phy has been CryStalliZed, like a fly in amber. in the hOmcly phrase, T have 1 the heartache." when stomach ache Is meant. That phrase is an unconscious recognition of the fact that the stomach 1 is the center of the human system.
 The importance of the stomach has been recognized by the earliest law | givers and thinkers of the human race. The dietary regulations of the law of Moses were farsighted attempt to make the food of historic nation con- form to the laws of nature. Legislat- ! ing for peoples living under condl- tions similar to those under which the | Jews lived. Mohammed. another of the
 worlds great lawgivers, embodied in the Koran a good deal that he found | in the TalmUd ou the subject of eating and drinking.
 Moses put the children of Israel on a diet. Mohammed put the Arabs on a diet.
 Business and professional America ought to go on a diet and stay there | for awhile.
 Nature is the greatest of all physi- clans. Give nature a chance. Don't overload your stomach with too much food. Don't OverwOrk your liver and your kidneys by too much drink, and sometimes very little drink is too much. Nature Is the watchmau sitting at the gate. Nature is ready to be up and at the enemy of your life at the first sign ot danger Don't bind and gag the watchman. Give him chance for his life and yonrs.
 Eat less. Walk more. The results will astonish you.-New York Mail.