White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-12
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This is not q meQlcal Treatise, re-
ing written by Il layman subject to
denunciation for ignorance of sub
iects relating to health and longev-
ity, but to the writer's view it is new
ertheless a matter of great public in
;erest and Of peril to millions that
in spite of all the forces for the
frightening of human life there are
arrayed against them almost equal
forces of neutralizing 'he objects 50
laudably aimed at and ostensibly
within the power of attainment.
Scientific men in recent years have
done marvels. They have isolated
and found the means of ~conquering
many a germ. New medical agencies
and serums have been given 10 the
world. Humanity mas been present
ed with the X-ray and the accom-
panying wonders of modern surgery.
Life under set conditions and cir
cumstances has been meaSurably
heightened and it is frequent that
men of practical experience and
knowledge have allowed the author
ity of their names to go with the an
nouncement that the day is within
cali when the span of life will be
increased to 1875 to $50 years; eve
that the period of reproduction will,
not stop at the arbitrary age that has
heretofore been accepted.
If life habits and environments
were as they once were there would
be less impediment to realization of
these happy forecasts, but they are
not. This applies the most forcibly
to America. where the man of today
is not the one Of s~eventy-fve, fifty or
even thirty years ago. Look over
the family daguerrectypes of the
grandfather days and you see pic
lures of a physically spare and virile
man or woman, with not a line or
indication IT the obesity of the de-
scendants of these seifsame progen-
itors of the American race of today.
This goes into the class Of the mod
ern rich mostly, but it applies meas
urably to men especially and some
women in every walk of American
life. Obesity of a greater or less
degree is openly at war with the
efforts of science to lengthen the
mortal span, and for every ten years
that are added by it's researches and
achievements probably nine or nine
and a half are s%ubtracted by the in
ertia and ease of the average person
of intelligence and s~edantary inclina-
lions.
Modern education, instead of aid
ing in the accomplishment of what
every man hopes most for, namely,
longer life, actually abets him toward
bodily inactivity, accretions of fat
where his father or grandfather did
not have them, and to an early if not
premature grave.
Diseases of a fatal character, en-
couraged by the prosperity of the
average American, more especially of
the man who in his boyhood was
that to live best he must be
educated to the logical sequence of q
professional life, instead of being re-
and thwarted are invited. AS
this article is not the product
Of one learned other than by hearsay
and observation, but it must appear
from such limitations that there is
no greater enemy today Of longevity
than too much fat where it ought
not to be. ,
So it is especially with men gain
ing wealth in early or middle life,
thereafter sitting down to ease and
comfort, perhaps behind a desk as
bank president Or controlling di-
While it is the paradoxical
desire Of everyone to get rich quick,