Word: gumpert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fewer calories, more vitamins and minerals. Good foods for oldsters: mild cheeses, milk, lean meat, butter, scrambled eggs, macaroni, well-cooked vegetables, stewed fruits, raw bananas. Blacklisted: hard-boiled eggs, raw or smoked meat, raw vegetables, rich cheeses. Dr. Gumpert advises breakfast in bed, a hearty lunch, light supper...
...Gumpert confesses that he feels old beyond his years, that he wrote his hopeful book partly to reassure him self. He begins by noting that the average U.S. life span, now 63, has increased 15 years since 1900, that already there are tens of thousands of people who live to be over 100 without half trying. Nature, says he, seems to have intended man to live at least a century, and Dr. Gumpert sees no reason why the limit cannot be raised...
Hale Columbians. As an example of what can be done, Dr. Gumpert cites the class of 1900 of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. When the class met for its annual dinner in 1940, only 100 of the original 175 were still alive ; seven had died in the past year. An alarmed member jumped to his feet and moved the appointment of a Committee on Longevity. This group discovered, among other things, that a member who' was a gallstone specialist had a gallstone without knowing it, that a hernia specialist had a hernia. The mortality rate...
Most old people die of vascular (blood vessel) diseases. Dr. Gumpert asserts that these and other diseases of age can be prevented or mitigated by modern geriatrics (the science of diseases of the aged). He also places great hope in Russian Biochemist Alexander Bogomoletz' ACS serum (TIME, Jan. 17), which may lengthen life by delaying the aging of connective tissue. But man's best hope of living longer, says Dr. Gumpert, is in his mental attitude toward death. The present system of life-insurance rates, retirement, pensions, etc., in Gumpert's view, "makes life an embarrassing preparation...
...Says Dr. Gumpert: "Old age and senility are no more necessarily related than infancy and rickets." At 79, Michelangelo began to write sonnets; at 73, Galileo published his discoveries on the revolutions of the moon; at 82, Goethe finished Faust; at 88, John Wesley preached every day; at 78, Franklin became U.S. Ambassador to France; after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents...