The Meeker Herald

Fat and Lean.

If the Medical Record is right, man is pursuing in the matter of bodily weight what is bad for him a common trick, and woman pines for a physical ideal that would mean long life if achieved, something rare indeed for women to do. Most men struggle to be fat. Most women diet to be lean.

Dr. Brandreth Symonds draws from a people past the age of thirty-five long study of life insurance records that cancer if below normal weight two to one, while if at or above standard. Heart disease is as rare among the lean as it is common with the heavy.

This is true also of Bright's disease, apoplexy, paralysis, cerebral congestion and cirrhosis of the liver. Only in pneumonia and tuberculosis do the underweights carry a greater risk. In all the cases which he examined Dr. Symonds found not a single fat man who reached the age of eighty years while forty-four short weights passed this mark.