Height and Weight

Most Favorable Weight

1.) Tall men, over 5ft. 10 in., are less likely than the average man to reach the age of 35. They seem to be fredisposed paticularly to tuberculosis. If you are young and tall it is advisable to give heed to the instructions under the heading tuberculosis. After the age of 35, tall men have better prospects of living to a ripe old age, provided they do noot permit their weight to increase above the standard figures.

2.) Men of medium height, 5 ft. 7 in., to 5 ft. 10 in., or of small stature 5 ft. 0 in., to 5 ft. 6 in., have good prospects of living to age 35, provided they keep their weight slightly above the standard figures. Past the age of 35, the death rate among short men is heavy if their weight is in excess of the standard.

3.) In a general way, for all heights before the age of 35 it is best to keep the weight slightly above the standard and to guard against tuberculosis. After the age of 35 overweight must be avoided, especially with advancing years.

4.) After the age of 50, the thinner an individual is, the better is his chance of growing old, provided he does not have a tendency to develop tuberculosis or has not suffered from tuberculosis in ealier years., and provided too, his lightweight is not due to some organic disease.

Overweight
You have no doubt been repeatedly told that persons who weight too much past the age of 35, have poor have poor prospects of attaining old age.. their particular enemy is heart disease. Statistic have abundantly demonstrated the truth of this statement. This does not mean that a very fat person cannot live to age 90 or even 100, but this chances of doing so are small.

Overweight is usually due to over-eating, although stout persons nearly always insist that they are very spare eaters; but they measure the amount of food that they eat by their appetites, and the appetite is a very flexible measuring rod, capable of being enormously stretched by hungry persons.If you are considerably overweight, consult your doctor for methods of reduction but if you are only moderately so, or even just pleasingly plump the best plan is to eat whatever you have been eating, but cut the amount in half and go easy with fatty foods and starchy and sweet articles of diet.

It is not easy to reduce weight. It taken will power. don't try to lose more than about two or three pounds a month, but keep at it for a year or more, until you get back to normal.Do not use drugs to reduce your weight Some drugs used to reduce weight are dangerous, and in some cases prove fatal.The general tendency is for a person to be thin and young and to grow stout with age. Furthermore, it is sometimes very difficult for a young lightweight to increase his or her weight through diet, etc. But thin young people need fear only tuberculosis; the dangers from consumption are not great provided the precautions regarding the tuberculosis are observed.

With very few exceptions, any person who is too heavy can reduce if he will make an effort to do so. The effort is worth while. At the age of 50, for instance, every pound weight in excess of the standard figures given in the table (standard weight and height) increases a man's likelihood of dying during the ensuing year, by about 1% . in other words, if a man 50 yrs. old weighs 50 lbs. in excess of the standard figures, the likelihood of his dying is constantly 50% greater than that of a man 50 yrs.old who is of normal weight.