A well-known dietetic expert, Mr. Walter M. Gallichan, gives the following useful suggestions to help {those in, and past, the prime of life, to avoid the dangers, as well as the disfigurements of obesity After 40 years of wear and tear the human body needs care for the preservation of health and energy and the prolongation of life. Some persons are in the prime of life at 40 but others show the first signs of age.
In the mid period of life there is often an increase in weight and a tendency in some cases to obesity, A surplus of fat is beneficial in childhood and youth; provided that it is not excessive. During growth plumpness is desirable, but after maturity fatness is not always an indication of fitness.
Tt is true that stout people are usually less prone to worry than the thia, but, on the other hand, they are less able to resist disease, and in many cases corpulence is a handicap upon physical activity.
Wiry, muscular, energetic men {remaii young longer than fat men. Women naturally are provided with more fat than men, and in their case it is a mark of health.
But there is every reason why the middle-aged of both sexes, should try to avoid obesity, Ac-, cording to the statistical tables of insurance companies, old, thin men have a better chance of living to a good age than elderly fat men. The great majority of long-lived Persons are thin, but not emaciat-
Over-eating and the injudicious use of alegholio drinks in middle-age shorten the lives of a host of people. Probably over-eating causes more illness than free indulgence in stimulating drink.
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