Diet in relation to age & activity : with hints concerning habits conducive to longevity / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Diet in relation to age & activity : with hints concerning habits conducive to longevity / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    date fresh experience has, I confess, only enhanced my estimate of the value of such knowledge, which indeed it is impossible to exaggerate, when regarding that one object of existence which I suppose all persons desire to attain, viz. an ample duration of time for enjoying the healthy exercise of bodily and mental functions. Few would, I presume, consider length of life a boon apart from the possession of fairly good health; but this latter being granted, the desire for a prolonged term of existence is natural, indeed almost universal. I have come to the conclusion that a proportion amounting at least to more than one-half of the chronic com- plaints which embitter the middle Half the chronic and latter part of life among the disease in middle and upper classes of the y^?s”du?to population is due to avoidable errors Cl A OFSt in diet. Further, while such disease renders so much of life, for many, dis- appointing, unhappy, and profitless — a term of painful endurance, for not a few c