The Art of Longevity
The best recipe for a long life is to keep living The Healthy Lifestyle. There is no substitute for this!
Consider each day a little life in it – make it as perfect and well-rounded as you can! Try to have a stronger heart and better health on your next birthday than you have today. By living supremely for the moment you are living superbly for a long, healthy, happy future!
You must always be self-aware of your life! The moment you relax your guard the enemy is ready to rush in and smite you in your heart. True, with luck, you may live long without trying, but you will live longer and better if you exert an effort. Living for Longevity is an art. The person who deliberately sets out to prolong their days has a healthy chance of doing just that!
Forgetfulness of self may make the time go like magic, but it does not help build a strong heart and keep you youthful. Inattention to yourself and the carelessness that results is extremely dangerous! As you live longer you should grow less objective and more subjective. The more self-centered you are, the better you will conserve your precious health resources. Longevity often belongs not to those who forget themselves for others, but to those who are most health conscious of themselves and their physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being.
This may seem to give the long-lived a positive, strong, at times selfish character. Not at all! Without healthy nourishment, we cannot aspire to fulfil our dreams. To seek to prolong one’s life is to extend one’s term of usefulness and service. We aren’t advocating you prolong your life at the expense of others! Rather, we suggest that you live a long, healthy life so that you may be more useful to others, as well as to yourself!
It’s important for people to know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for. – Mary Waldrip
May your years be 120. – Genesis 6:3
Do You Show Signs of PREMATURE AGEING?
Is everything you do a big effort?
• Have you started to lose your skin tone? Muscle tone?
• Do small things irritate you? Are you forgetful? Confused?
• Have voices begun to fade?
• Has your vision started to dim?
• Do you wobble a little when you walk?
• Do you get out of breath when you climb stairs?
• How limber is your back?
• Do your joints creak?
• How well do you adjust to cold and heat?
• Ask yourself this important question: Do I seem to be slipping and not quite like myself anymore? If the answer to this question is “Yes,” You had better do something about it!
Dear friend, I wish above all things that thou may prosper and be in health even as the soul prospers. – 3 John 2
Secret of Longevity – Organized Resistance
The secret of longevity is to understand that the enemy is not your chronological age. Premature ageing is preventable! You must put up a strong defence against ageing. There are a few, of course, who are born with such wonderful constitutions `they simply can’t kill themselves. You might find a few octogenarians who say they owe their long life to smoking, alcohol and avoiding exercise. You can tell them confidently that they could extend their lifespan by a good 20 years by living a healthy lifestyle.
Scientific longevity is organised resistance. It is based on knowledge of the body and the laws of health. Above all, it means reliance on Mother Nature. She abhors ill health, which is another name for toxic poisoning and clogged pipes. She is always striving to purify and to vitalize. She wants to help you if you will only let her. Medicine, drugs and doctors will do you no good if Mother Nature is not backing them up.
Heart Disease is Your Greatest Threat
Remember that you must always defend yourself against coronary thrombosis (heart attack), stroke, hypertension (high blood pressure), arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries), atherosclerosis(blockage and clogging of the arteries by cholesterol and other debris), angina pectoris, varicose veins and other cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) diseases. Diseases of the heart and circulatory system are the #1 Killer in the United States taking more than a million American lives each year – more than all other causes combined! And never forget that you must also guard against stiffening joints, fibrous tissues, deafness, blindness and many other enemies of health and life.
All this means that there must be a little slowing of activity. We believe the advice grow old gracefully is wrong! Mother Nature and God will eventually decree the end – but until then it’s far better to live life as youthfully as possible! You are as old as you feel – so feel young! When you abide by Mother Nature’s Laws, you feel younger! By trusting in and obeying her laws, understanding your miracle physical machine and how to care for it, you can live a long, youthful, healthy, happy life.
Old Age is Not Inevitable – Scientists Say Man Should Live to 140 to 185
It seems to us that what we call old age is the result of sluggish cell action in the body. The cells are being renewed all the time by the moisture in the lymph circulation, just as a tree is renewed all the time by the circulation of its sap. But if the cell is clogged in any way by toxic deposits which it cannot be completely rid of – chiefly because of poor circulation of the blood – it cannot then make full use of the building material brought by the lymphatic system or the nourishment and oxygen delivered by the bloodstream.
On the basis of what we have done with rabbits, we have come to the conclusion that if we can do the same thing for a man, he can live a healthy and normal life until the age 185! A waxy material, cholesterol, is deposited on the arteries and there is a correlation between age and the amount of cholesterol deposited. In tests of 52 rabbits, we have been able to reverse the symptoms of old age! Says a brilliant Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Biochemistry Professor, Dr W. M. Malisoff, who did extensive research there.
Biologists tell us that man grows an entirely new body every 11 months. That being the case, why does mankind age? Scientists answer this by saying that the body fails to shed all of the old cells. As we stated earlier, deposits in the cell prevent its full use of the new material. So instead of living 7 times the period, it takes him to mature, as most animals do, man’s life is unnaturally shortened by his unhealthy lifestyle. Sad facts!
Confirmation of this statement comes from Dr Serge Veronoff of Paris, France, who says that each of us should live to be 140 years old. A human being matures at 20 years of age. Mother Nature constructed the human machine to live 7 times that age, or 140 years. The fact that some men and women even today have been able to reach or surpass the age of 120 years and have then died of some disease seems to prove the validity of the 140-year lifespan without disease as natural.
