Life — April 7, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Life elltale Arteries NOTED physician said recently, “The woman who conceals her age is a public benefactor. Through her determination to stay young—even to the point of denying the calendar—she has set up higher health standards. Age is not a matter of years but of tissue changes. While she keeps ber body and spirit young, she is young.” ° . * * If you have associated with persons past 50 or 60, you may have listened to much solemn talk about arteries—well intend- ed, but mostly untrue. For example, “old as your arteries,” “old as you look,” “Lwonder how old she realy is. don't believe she is as young © tat wince, “old as you feel,” being part-truths are swallowed whole or rejected entirely, depending upon casual experience or observation. That arteries which become thick and brittle may bring an abrupt ending to life through ruptured blood vessels is generally known. But it is not generally known that either defective arteries or high blood pressure may be directly responsible for serious changes which occur in heart, kidneys and brain. High blood pressure is not a disease. It is a definite indication that something is wrong somewhere in the body. What causes the trouble can oftentimes be in- mediately discovered by a competent doctor. Again, the cause can be deter. mined only by patient, intelligent study and observation. Here is the message to everybody, old or young, sick or well: Your doctor can find out in a few minutes whether or not your blood pressure is normal for your age—whether or not your arteries are healthy. There is no way for you to judge your condition. At the beginning of trouble there is seldom pain or warn ing of any kind. The fact that one's blood pressure shows fluctuation or is temporarily high is no proof tha anything is radically wrong. Thanks to sound advice of physicians, thousands and thousands of men and women have been saved from acute or chronic trouble by removing the caus. Others, who have found the cause past correction—as it sometimes is—have lived to old age with hardened arteries, high blood pressure, or both, because they learned how to live—eating, work ing, exercising wisely and in moderation, Sometimes high blood pressure and diseased arteries are caused by focal in fection in head or body; sometimes by poisons—the leftovers of previous in fectious disease which were neglected and never completely eliminated; sometimes by overweight or overwork or unhappy mental conditions— worry, fear, anger, hate, anxiety. Above all, know the truth. Have your blood pressure read once a year at least. Keep well, keep happy, keep young. Among 16,700 Metropolitan policyholders recently examined, bd 2,150 were found to be more than 20 per cent overweight; 6,900 had defective teeth with suspected focal infection; 4,370 had enlarged, septic or buried tonsils; 1,190 had high blood pressure which might have been attributed to one or more of the above, or to other causes. that of persons of approximately average weight. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will gladly mail you, without cost, its booklets “Overweight” which tells how to reduce weight safely, and “Blood Pressure” which gives in- teresting information regarding the simplicity and meaning of them. a blood pressure test. Send for Tt was found that the number of overweight persons who showed a blood pressure above normal was more than twice Published by HALEY FISKE, President. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY=NEW YORK Biggest in the World, More Assets, More Policyholders, More Insurance in force, More new Insurance each yea? comicbooks.com