The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-22
TO THE MAJORITY OF MEN

TO THE MAJORITY OF MEN
 Cardiovascular degeneration cov- CTS good deal of pathology-ar- terio-sclerosiS, apoplexy, enlarge ment and muscular impairment of the heart, chronic nephritiS, angina pectoris, cardiac thrombosis and other interesting denouements.
 Yes, yes, am mindful of the fact that this is a health column, yet good working knowledge of personal hygiene involves recognition of the fact that death comes to the ma jority of men through the portal of cardiovascular degeneration. If life begins at forty for some men, others, as we find by health assay, begin to die at thirty-f1ve. For instance, in a tabulation of group of TIA male patients in a large clinic 20, per cent, were found to have developed ar- teriosclerosis before the age of forty, and of 703 female patients less than per cent had developed arterio- scleroSiS before the age of forty. This tabulation was made several years ago-before women began to smoke and drink as many women do today; probably a tabulation now would show a larger proportion of women beginning before forty to die.
 The high tension" under which American business men like to flat ter themselves they live is actually eating too much, sitting too much, smoking and drinking. The killing pace" of American life is 60 to 90 miles an hour. The stress and strain of heavy business responsibil- ities is lot of hooey, the "big bus inessman" inflated with @ sense of his own importance, trying to get by without even a vocarious reaction to the fight-or- flight emotions in- volved in his unnatural mode of ex- istence.
 Effect of tobacco on arteries: ''The rise of blood pressure is so great that have never seen 1t equalled after the injection of any drug, except suprarenal extract. The rise is due to contraction of the ar teries. The ultimate effect is to in- crease the rapidity of the heart" Lauder Brunton, a great authority made the statement.) The pouring into the blood of the suprarenal gland hormone is the automatic mechanism of any fight or flight emotion. If actual physical combat or flight is not feasible, then good vicarious reaction or outlet for the surplus energy released by the emo- tion is a brisk walk. A daily walk is perhaps the best remedy to keeE down high blood pressure.
 Good rule whenever ones nerves" temper or ire or fear ol anxietieS are aroused, to seize on the first available moment to roll few somerSaultS, go into your dance, dt some calisthenic exercises, take walk, run up or down stairs, do { bit of shadow boxing or bag punch ing or use all the muscles as vigor. ously as possible in one way or an. other. This absorbs the surplus erl' Eergy, blows of steam, saves thu heart and arteries from the brunt o the repressed or inhibited emotion.
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