When a Spanish-speaking friend wants to wish you the very best that life can offer, he will often lift his glass with the following toast: “To health and wealth – and time to enjoy both.” Embodied in this simple salute are the three basic desires common to people everywhere in all ages.
Why can’t we live longer? Everyone wants to live longer. It is one of the most deeply rooted instincts of mankind. Every-one wants to live a life of usefulness and abundance, free of disease and unhappiness. As we grow older, we look forward even more anxiously to increasing our lifespan. We want time to enjoy our achievements, time still to make plans.
By the time we reach 60, we realize that, in the words of the great French painter Gauguin, “life is a split second.” We begin to think about all the things we still want to do before we reach our seventieth birthday. If we are fortunate enough to pass our seventieth birth-day, we wonder why we can’t live even longer-perhaps to be 80, or even to 100. Well, why can’t we? Actually, we indeed are living much longer than we did a century ago, increasing the average life expectancy by 20 years in America since 1900. How have we achieved this?
Advances in medical science have outlawed many diseases. These golden years are ours because of advances made by tireless research in medical science. They represent a decisive victory over the contagious and infectious diseases which sometimes wiped out whole sections of our population a generation ago. Thanks to the new knowledge provided by recent research, we no longer need fear the ravages of such diseases as diphtheria, scarlet and typhoid fever, syphilis and, to a great extent, tuberculosis. All these pestilences, however, were caused by those invisible but ever-present enemies of health-germs.
With ways to deal with deadly microorganisms, a new danger has arrived and in clearer and more frightening perspective. The 20th Century epidemic. A single, fundamental disease of the human body can now be considered the source of more than half of all deaths occurring each year in the United States. This disorder is known to doctors as “arteriosclerosis,” which means a hardening and thickening of the arteries. It is now so widespread that Dr. Paul Dudley White, the renowned heart specialist, recently described it as “a modern epidemic.” As the disease progresses-sometimes over a long period of time-the vessels that carry the blood from the heart to the body’s tissues become hard, and the inside tubes become roughened and thick. The conditions pave the way for the three most common causes of death and disability in America: heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. Is there any way to avoid this disease, whose most common victims are middle-aged men, and sometimes even the younger ones, sometimes those in their twenties? The answer is yes, provided you will take the time and give some effort now to learn a few simple methods on how to prevent it. Even worse, the behavior of arteriosclerosis is still rather unclear.
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