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HOW LONG CAN YOU LIVE?
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live longer if your home is in the central part of the country than if it is on the Atlantic, Gulf, or Pacific coasts, according to Dr. Harold Dorn, statistician of the U. S. Public Health Service. "The expectation of life is longest in the tier of eastern great plains states from North Dakota to Oklahoma," he says.
Many promising discoveries thought to enable us to live longer have proved duds. One of these was heavy water. When first produced a few years ago it was predicted that heavy water could be used to prolong lives of older people by slowing down the vital processes. But recent experiments on rats indicate that the deceleration is temporary and is more than offset by a speed-up reaction that follows.
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EW theories are tested on rats because they respond to nutri' tion in exactly the same way as humans, and their normal lifetime being so much shorter, it is possible to ascertain effects in weeks and months that might take years of observation in people. For example, Drs. Fay Morgan and Helen Davison Simms have pointed up the effect of the lack of certain vitamins in the diet in experiments on rats. They found they could produce all the symptoms of old age
in very young rats by withholding the Vitamin-B complex from their diet, and make them young again by restoring it.
Each geriatrist has his own particular theory as to the best way of lengthening life. However, practically all of them agree that other things being equal, how long you live depends upon what you eat. Dr. C. Ward Crampton, former chairman of the Committee on Preventive Medicine of the New York Medical Society, summed up the matter before a joint legislative committee in New York. He said, "Whether a man at 60 will be as vigorous as the average man of 40, or decrepit and miserable as the average octogenarian, depends largely on diet. Men and women who are growing old do not get enough calcium, iron and protein, and eat too much starch and sugar."
No one knows what the geriatrists and gerontologists will discover tomorrow or next week, so it's hard to say whether or not you'll double the Hfespan of your grandparents. But your chances right now for a few extra years are excellent . . . even if you keep on smoking and drinking and eating what you want rather than what you should.
If current best-selling authors do not achieve immortality, at least they only miss it by a "t."
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Many of us are at the "metallic" age — gold in our teeth, silver in our hair, and lead in our pants.
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Pedestrian: A car owner who found a parking space.
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With respect to the world at large, the American taxpayer is fast becoming his brother's keeper-upper.