Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-16
Health Talks by Dr. Brady
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Il man sc years old. sixty inches
tall. and weigh 40 pounds l put In six or
seven hours n day punching typewriter or
camping in an office chair have had no Sc
rous Illness In ten years and have taken no
medicine in that time have taken no break
fast for twelve years. never eat between
meals. never cat candy or patrcn1e tho soda
counter. hut am strong for pie. thickly but
tered toast rich steaks aud that sort Of thing.
My eyes I'LL with tears of emotion at the
thought Of rich and indigestlblc desacrt.
! was examined for life insurance recently.
but pena!ized for excess weight and be-
cause my blood pressure 1i5. smoke a
great deal ana my physician declares that the
high blood pressure probably comes from
smoking.
What about the relation OF high blood
pressure and smoking?
Il have become accustomed to being over
weight, but any hint At other abnormalitcs
rather alarms me.
please give me any suggestion YOU can
toward reducing MY weight and my blood
pressure"
This is certainly heart rcnding case. My
sympathy goes out to this man-but just as
he reaches for 1t ] snatch Il back again. for
/ think he needs the exercise.
! would prescribe two good habits and an
accomplishment for auch man. He ought
10 acquire Cd the eating habit, and CD the
smoking habit. For Accomplishment 7
would suggest saving wood. Still. the man
is going on the rocks. and going fast. unless
he goes on the rockpilc voluntarily. Exercise
is great medicine for him rs he tells me In an
other part Of his letter which | have omitted
he reduced to l55 pounds while he was in tho
service one year mostly spent In camp.
The relation OF tobacco with high blood
pressure Is a very definite one. No other
stimulant Will quickly or so persistentI;-
elevate n nnns blood pressure as tobacco
does.
The eating habit is n good one for n man
TO have. But this man hasn't yet mastered
the habit. The habit has mastered him Can't
you sec his frailty in that reference to rich
dessert and rich steaks? Well. no matter. the
scales show man up, or Il woman. Any
body who is overweight overeats
Even the tobacco habit may not do a grown
'nnn any harm so long hc has tho habit
wei In hand When tho habit has tho man.
mat means organic degeneration. High blood
pressure, hardening OF the arteries, angina
pec;oris-thcse are common everyday mnrks
of tobacco poisoning. How may IL tobacco
user know whether ho has the habit or the
habit has him? That Is very easy to deter
mine If he can go all day without to-
hacco and without growing grumpy over It,
the habit hasn't got him yet. And the only
way tobacco user can tell whether he can
do this is by trying II at least once q month
There Is an idea that one with high blood
pressure or hardened arteries or Brighrs dis
case shHnd eat no meat. or il he takes any
meat 1t should be only white meats. or some
thing like that. If | had any or all three of
these conditions I'd want TO cat n reasonable
amount of meat. according to nv pbysIcal
activity And OF course. there is nothing at
All In the red meat or white meat notion
When ovcrcating induces elevation OF blood
pressure above the normal il is not meat and
not any other ono kind of food. II is general
~ much too much of everything good to- en- l.
in TINS particular case perhaps the victim
! should karell