Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-10-19
TO ADD 7 YEARS TO
LIFE EXPECTATION
Science Also Promises More
Virile Race.


Is building scientific structure which
gives assurance Of longer life and q
more ylrile race This Is the theme
Of report to the symposium Of the
agricultural and food division Of the
American Chemical society by Prof.
Henry G. Sherman of the department
of chemistry of Columbia university.
The report was presented during the
eighty-sixth meeting of the society,
designated as the Century Of Progress
meeting" More than 5000 chemists
attend the sessions.
Recent researches show men and
women now are taller than their an
cestors. Chemistry, holding the key
to the understanding of the nutrition
al processes in plant and animal life,
promises to make humanity more
sturdy and longer lived, according to
the report
Expectation Of Life.
The expectation of life, Professor
Sherman holds, will be extended from
the age Of seventy to the age Of sew
enty-seven. Man in his chosen tasks
will be at the height Of his powers at
sixty-dve instead Of flfty-eight years.
The age at which 1t Is difficult to get
Jobs in a new field, now commonly
put at forty-five. will be ffty-two.
Adults nearing sixty should learn az
readily as the young, the food chemist
AYERS, for psychology has determined
that the capacity for learning Ia un-
diminished at middle age. Age will
yield less readily to youth, he adds,
and men and women of more advanced
years will rule to a greater extent In
human affairs.
All this will emerge from an Inn
proved internal environment, which,
passed on to succeeding generations,
will form a bulwark against disease,
enlarge the prime Of life, and postpone
senility, Doctor Sherman asserts.
"While chemistry will not make
blends Of brunettes, 1t will, by pro-
viding this superior environment, make
men and women more powerful con-
stitutionally, If not larger, and aid in
the development Of muscular strength
through increased participation in
sports and right living" Doctor Sher-
man said. 1--WE should be mindful, new
ertheless, that buoyant health Is not q
monopoly Of larger people.
An Improved Environment.
"We are learning what things to
feed into the body in order that 1t
may be helped to maintain a more
constantly optimal chemical environ
ment within, and we have reason to
anticipate that such chemical improve
ment Of the internal environment may
be favorable to those developments of
mind and spirit which are in some
way linked with the higher health Of
the body.
"The dramatic series Of discoveries
regarding the existence in food and
the significance In nutrition of whole
group Of substances not particularly
related in their chemical natures or
nutritional functions, commonly called
'vitamins,' demonstrate impressively
the rapidity with which many funda-
mentally important discoveries have
been made in the past few years.
an our experiments at Columbia
university we have families of rats
which are thriving In the twenty-sev.
enth generation on uniform diet"
Professor Sherman continues.
'Yet, on enriching the already ade-
quate diet in certain Of it's chemical
factors there results an improvement
in the general nutritional condition.
Growth is more rapid and efficient, the
death rate drops, vitality is higher at
all ages, average longevity increases
10 per cent, and the prime Of life Is
extended"
The diet on which rats thrive Is en-
riched by increasing the proportion of
protective foods" milk, fruit, vege-
tables, and eggs, Professor Sherman
states.