Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1966-08-01 / 8-9. szám
10 FRATERNITY NUTRITION RULES LONGEVITY If you wish to live to be 100, you have to start with eating, the Catholic Digest states. Most persons who live to be 100 are lean, wiry, underweight. Doctors say the important nutritional rules are these: 1. Do not overeat. Remember that automation and new techniques require less and less energy for most jobs. 2. Eat well-balanced, reasonable, adequate meals, including fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy products. Do not worry about blood cholesterol unless it is abnormally high. Baylor University scientists recently discovered that 78% of 1,700 people tested had cholesterol levels within the normal range. 3. When tired, irritated or nervous, eat sparingly. 4. Eat at regular times. Chew food thoroughly and slowly. Avoid agitation and aggravation, particularly at mealtime. Eating should be a period of pleasant relaxation. Other key rules: Keep blood pressure, which is directly related to weight, at a normal level. Learn to live with life as it is and adjust with a sense of humor to problems, goals and capabilities. Stress shortens life, brings on ulcers, headaches, skin afflictions, anxiety complexes and heart attacks. Most animals live five or six times the length of time it takes them to grow to full maturity. Man should live to be at least 100, more naturally to 125 or even 150. Proper diet should be augmented with daily exercise — if only walking. Physical stimulation makes all parts of the body function better. ORGAN IS OLDER THAN CHRISTIANITY Do you know that the organ is actually older than Christianity? The first organ was devised in 250 B. C. and combined water, a trumpet and air pressure to make “a powerful sound”. More than 1,000 years later, an organ was built that had 400 pipes and 26 bellows, and needed 70 men to operate it and two organists to play it. Eventually, other mechanical devices were added and soon the organ was known as the King of Instruments. But, it was so large and magnificent that anly the very rich could own one. In 1935, Laurens Hammond put together the first electric organ and, fittingly, Henry Ford, another great American inventor, was the first man to own a Hammond organ. Today, more than three million Americans play electric organs for fun and enjoyment. (Southwest Journal — Detroit, Mich.)
