The Daily Alaskan

A ROAD TO HEALTH
Eat Less and Walk More if You
Are Losing All Your Vim.

JUST GIVE NATURE A CHANCE.
That Wonderful Old Doctor Is Always
Ready and Willing to Be Your Friend
and Will Produce Magical Results if
His Laws Are Obeyed.
A man on the shady side of forty
thought he was going into a decline.
He went to his physician, submitted to
a thorough examination and waited the
word which was to consign him to the
scrap heap.
This is what the doctor, who happen-
ed to be a modern physician, told him
two or three days later:
"You eat too much, drink too much,
sit around too much and walk too lit-
tle. I am going to put you on a rigid
diet, and I want you to walk-walk-
walk."
The man who thought he was going
into a decline demurred at the doctor's
suggestion of a rigid diet. The diet
prescribed consisted of milk-only milk
—and the man who saw visions of the
scrap heap loved his "vittles," but he
decided to follow the doctor's orders.
He stuck to the rigid diet.
And he made it a practice to walk
two miles to the office every morning.
Rain or shine. The ease with which he
acquired a scorn for the street car after
a week or two astonished him.
At the end of a week of dieting and
walking, this man began to look upon
life with different eyes. His work,
which had been a burden, began to as-
sume an attractive glow. At the end
of two weeks, with a modified but still
skimpy diet, and more walking, he be-
gan to catch himself in the act of run-
ning up the stairs instead of dragging
himself up in main force. At the end
of four weeks of this treatment, with-
out taking a drop of medicine or a sin-
gle pill, he felt as if ten years had rolled
of his shoulders.
The average New York man who
works at desk eats too much if he does
not drink too much. He sits around
too much and walks altogether too lit-
tle. And what is true of the average
New Yorker is true of the average
American. Too much food, too much
drink and too much sitting around are
the unholy trinity of our national de-
bilitation. We are becoming physically
flabby and mentally drowsy. We are
beginning to nod in the armchair.
Overindulgence has done it-that sys-
tem of self pampering which Dr. John
H. Quale of Cleveland calls "twentieth
century habits."
Most of these "twentieth century hab-
its" have to do with the stomach. In
some languages a piece of basic philoso-
phy has been crystallized, like a fly in
amber, in the homely phrase, "I have
the heartache," when stomach ache is
meant. That phrase is an unconscious
recognition of the fact that the stomach
is the center of the human system.
The importance of the stomach has
been recognized by the earliest law
givers and thinkers of the human race.
The dietary regulations of the law of
Moses were a farsighted attempt to
make the food of a historic nation con-
form to the laws of nature. Legislat-
ing for peoples living under condl-
tions similar to those under which the
Jews lived, Mohammed, another of the
world's great lawmakers, embodied in
the Koran a good deal that he found
in the Talmud on the subject of eating
and drinking.
Moses put the children of Israel on
a diet. Mohammed put the Arabs on
a diet.
Business and professional America
ought to go on a diet and stay there
for awhile.
Nature is the greatest of all physk-
cians. Give nature a chance. Don't
overload your stomach with too much
food. Don't over work your liver and
your kidneys by too much drink, and
sometimes very little drink is too much.
Nature is the watchman sitting at
the gate. Nature is ready to be up
and at the enemy of your life at the
first sign of danger. Don't bind and
gag the watchman. Give him a chance
for his life and yours.
Eat less. Walk more. The results
will astonish you. -New York Mail