The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07

-. p-. to the waist line Is
cut from the life line"
DR.. Chas. 81. Mayo says: men fifty
years old and fifty pounds overweight
are much more likely to have cancer
than the normal This means then
that eating or overeating is factor
in causing cancer because half the
cases of cancer are found in the stom-
ach and intestines.'
ITO sum it up, the overweights have
a higher death rate At fifty years of
age an excess weight of 55 pounds in
creases the death rate by so per cent"
l am quoting from "How to Live" by
Prof. Irving Fisher and DR.. Lyman
Fisk.
However, overweights have more
than the death rate to consider; they
must think of their everyday life
their chances for good health, their
ability to get around easily, their re-
sistance to ailments, their mental abil-
ity or grip.
Some Famed Light Eaters.
Famous men whose brains keep clear
till the end are usually light eaters
who from early years of experiment.
ing have found out just what agrees
with them and are satisfied with this
amount and variety of food. Chauncey
Depew attended dinners and banquets
three or four times a week for years,
but always looked over the menu and
ate only the foods he knew gave him
the nourishment he required.
Thos. A. Edison came of long-lived
family who for generations had learned
to eat what they knew their bodies
required and no more. Thus in an in
terview some years ago Edison said !:
1.-THE body is only a piece of machinery
and every practical man knows that to
get good work out of a machine and
keep it in repair at the same time one
must know how to take care of it..
Now, If you have 100-horsepower en-
CINE and a boiler big enough to drive
it, no wise engineer will fire that boiler
to full capacity when he only wishes
to take eight horsepower out of his
engine. If he does, he sooner or later
burns the grate-bars out of his fire-box.
But that is just what the majority are
doing; burning up 100 horsepower Of
fuel in their bodies and taking out eight
horsepower of work. Is it any wonder
that the boiler flues and the arteries
get clogged up, that the pipes burst,
causing apoplexy?"
Truth About the Stomach.
AS you know, early man lived out
doors, used the great bulk of muscle
covering his body, had natural ap-
petite and filled" his stomach when
he obtained food because he did not
know just when he would get his next
meal. Thus Nature supplied him with
a stomach that would hold enough food
to fill his needs for a whole day or
more.
Today we have these same huge
muscles covering our bodies and have
the same large stomach, but we do not
live outdoors, do not work these huge
muscles and so do not need more than
about half the food that was needed
by early man. Yet because we have
the same big stomach and get the kinds
of food we like, many of us thought
lessly think we have to fill this big
stomach three times day.
Remember, then, that we need some
of all the different kinds of food daily,
that is (a) meat, eggs or fish (b)
cream, butter or other fat, (c) vege-
+ohlae hotb e&or ohxy opd laofx, fdN ,,,;r
erals and (e) water. But If we want
to be at our best mentally and physi-
cally we eat just the amounts of these
foods that will keep us strong without
increasing our weight above normal.
Relaxation and Sleep
So much has been written about the
value of sleep that many nervous indi-
viduals worry themselves into sleep
lessness. They fear dire ailments or
even insanity If they don't get a GER
tain number of hours of sleep each
night
Now while nothing can take the
place of real sleep, with every muscle
relaxed, 1t has been found that If an
individual is unable to sleep but can
relax body and mind to a point almost
approaching sleep he can attain as
high as 80 per cent of the value of
sleep. 1t is estimated that two hours
sleep in the "a will keep anyone alive.
so that with complete relaxation for
four hours and say four hours sleep
you might be fully capable of doing
your work.
Enough outdoor exercise. without
OVERRIDING 1t, brings on a natural
need" for sleep that is better than any
other method of inducing sleep.
G-WNU Service.