Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
Observation-Disclosures

According TO life insurance tables.
10 per cent overweight, after age 40,
cuts off about the same proportion
from life expectancy, \ woman Is
permitted, by life insurance doctors.
to weigh . pounds for every inch she
Is tall with a maximum of % pounds
per inch at age so Women who
weigh more than that are regarded as
dangerous risks.
A woman teacher from down east
whose height and age prescribed 4
healthful weight of about 100 pounds,
| found herself tipping the scales Just
short of 200. She writes that a CON
sultation with a physician gave her
schedule of diet and exercise that
allowed loss of 10 pounds per month
with improved health and new lease
of life. She now boasts of a figure
that Carmen Sylvia might envy.
The reason most fat people find II
so difficult to reduce by a healthful
process is that they confine their exer-
else largely to jumping at conclusions,
or something equally rs violent, or
else they diet largely by proxy, cloth
ing the imagination with the power of
dttpiHSS III THIS matter.
There is no side-tracking the fact
that a shortening of the diet to the
minimum requirement of healthful
| life, coupled with a reasonable sehed-
ule of regular exercise, will reduce
the body weight to the eminent salts
faction of the most obese.
II Father Time were allowed to use
his own tools in the matter of gather
| ing the children of men to their final
rewards, about two-thfds of the I'M
dertakerS would have to suspend bust
ness for the next 80 or IS years.
Last year, for example, senility was
credited with but scarcely more than
500 fatalities in Illinois while acct
dents accounted for nearly 5000.
| Communicable diseases, which would
| probably be unknown to a race of men
who lived always in the open and dis
carded clothing, were charged with
something over 10000 fatalities. The
| ingenuity of man has created for him
an environment strange to anything
in the plans of nature. Ii is now w
to man to adjust himself perfectly to
this new arrangement in order to
escape the ills that ii brings.
Strangely enough people generally
entertain a mortal fear Of snake bite
and spider sting and even regard an
anesthetic as dangerous. Some per
sons feel that a journey on train
entails unusual hazards to health.
The risk to life from all of these
| things combined is much less than
crossing street in the busy section of
E. ,fln a
was but one death resulting from the
bite of yenomous serpent while the
railroads of the United States carried
931 100000 passengers with but lag
fatalities out of that number. In
other words a city the size of Chicago
has three times more fatal automobile
mishaps than do all the passengers in
the United States from railroad acct
dents.
There are several kinds of health
assurances. One of them Is a good
vaccination scar. Another is a mega
tive Schick test which means immun-
ity to diphtheria. A couple of dollars
will pay for the minimizing of a
child to diphtheria but it takes 500
or more to see him safely through an
attack of that disease and even then
there is never a guarantee of recov-
cry.
The variation of the states death
rate by one-hundredth of a point
means life or death for 68 people.
1t means health or sickness for 500
others. estimated at the rate Of about
7 cases of illness per each death.
1t means improved or impaired health
for $500 others. These facts not only
suggest the significance Of opportun-
ity for public health service but they
express the importance of the decline
in the general death rate in Illinois
from 1872 in 1916 to ll.2 in 1924.
Vitality, companion of health,
determine 5 interest. Interest de-
determines efficiency. Efficiency large
termines whether one works for love
freeman-or whether one work for
fear bondsman. Love Of work largely
" determines happiness. Happiness
largely determines attitude toward
God and man. Anything that pre-
serves and promotes vitality then is a
tremendous factor in efficiency, happi-
ness and right attitude toward the
here and hereafter.