How to Keep Young after Forty: A Dynamic Formula for Good Health and Long Life

68 Pages·1974·3.165 MB·English

by  Editorial Committee of Science of Life Books

HOWT
KEEP YOUNG
AFTER 40
A Dynamic Formula for
Good Health and Long Life
S
S

HOWTO KEEPYOUNGAFTER FORTY
Nobody wants to grow old but at least weshouldbe
able to reach this stage in life with our health and
faculties unimpaired. Here is a heartening
assessment of the subject, demonstrating that a
vitamin-rich diet is the best guarantee for healthful
longevity.
Alsointhisseries
BEFOREANDAFTERBABYCOMES
CIDERAPPLEVINEGAR
CONSTIPATION, HAEMORRHOIDSANDCOLITIS
EATING FORHEALTH
FIVENUTRITIOUSHEALTHFOODS
GETWELLWITHFOOD
GLANDSANDYOURHEALTH
HEARTAILMENTS
HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE
HONEY,NATURALFOODANDHEALER
IMPROVEYOURSIGHTWITHOUTGLASSES
KEYTOFITNESS
LIVELONGERANDHEALTHIER
LIVERAILMENTSANDCOMMONDISORDERS
LOSEWEIGHTANDGAINHEALTH
MASSAGEATYOURFINGERTIPS
NERVETROUBLES
RAWJUICESFORHEALTH
RHEUMATISMANDARTHRITIS
SKINTROUBLES
STOMACHULCERSANDACIDITY
VITAMINSEXPLAINEDSIMPLY
WOMAN’SCHANGEOFLIFE
HOW TO KEEP
YOUNG
AFTER FORTY
.
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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 7
The Steinach Theory of Rejuvenation 8
Voronoff and Monkey Glands 9
Dr Howard Hay on the Problem 11
14 Causes of Acidity, Ill-Health, Old Age 15
One Example of aProperly-Fed People 19
Disease was Abolished! 23
Diet, the Key to Health 24
A Convincing Experiment 25
Russian Research 26
Honey and Long Life 28
The Glands of Long Life 31
Dr Gayelord Hauser on the New Nutrition 32
The Golden Age of Life 35
Professor Irving Fisher 38
The Function ofProtein Foods 41
Importance of Fats and Carbohydrates 42
Vital Importance ofVitamin B Complex 45
Two Super Foods 47
Importance ofVitamin C 50
The Sunshine Vitamin D 51
The Amazing Vitamin E 52
Importance ofCalcium and Phosphorus 53
You Can’tLive Without Iron 54
A Little Iodine is Essential 56
Other Mineral Requirements 56
The 80-20 Formula for Long Life 57

Introduction
Man’s search for the secret of prolonging human life
and vitality began thousands ofyears ago.
All sorts of strange notions and potions have
been tried, but to no purpose.
Each generation has produced men who have made
the quest for the magic elixir of life a special
dedication of their time and thought.
In our own life-time we remember Professor
Metchnikoff, who made researches into the Bulgarians’
way of living. The hardy peasants of the
Bulgarian Mountains are famous for their longevity.
An extraordinary percentage of them compared
with other races live past the century mark.
Metchnikoff spent much time among them with a
view to ascertaining whether it was some special kind
of diet or scheme of living that accounted for their
long life spans.
He finally attributed their long lives and relative
freedom from disease to the fact that their principal
article of diet was yogurt.
Yogurt is milk that has been soured and thickened
by a culture.
Metchnikoff discovered that the lactic acid producing
bacteria in yogurt creates an environment in
the large intestine (the colon) which prevents the
over-development of putrefactive bacteria known as
the colon bacilli or B coli.
Metchnikoff considered that old age and senility
are attributable to toxins that cause hardening of the
8 HOW TO KEEP YOUNG AFTER FORTY
arteries. These toxins, he said, arise from the colon
due to the over-activity ofputrefactive bacteria.
In health, the putrefactive bacteria are kept in
check by friendly micro-organisms which produce
lactic acid ferments, detrimental to the B coli.
Experience has shown that a safe and rapid way to
restore bacterial balance in the colon is to take
yogurt, which has the power of inhibiting the
proliferation of harmful micro-organisms that cause
putrefaction and delayed elimination.
Yogurt contains copious quantities of the lactic
acid bacteria Lactobacillus Acidophilus, and other
ferments. Medical science affirms that yogurt is
beneficial in such intestinal ailments as colitis,
dysentery and infantile gastro-enteritis. It is also
effective in constipation, flatulence and such
children’sailments as poor appetite, stomach ‘upsets’
and emaciation.
The Steinach Theory of Rejuvenation
The next attempt to solve the problem ofpremature
old age was made by Professor Eugen Steinach.
In 1920 he presented his theory of ‘Rejuvenation
through the Reactivation of the Ageing Puberty
Glands’.
Its possibilities inflamed the imagination of
scientists, medical men and laymen alike. The theory
was as startling as abombshell.
Professor Steinach’stheory was that the sex glands
have two different functions. They produce both an
internal and an external secretion.
According to Steinach’stheory, the external secretion
produces life; the internal secretion revitalizes
the body itself.