THE CHINA -MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1058.
Success won't kill you!
ATTENTION all men
who have been bat- tening on the belief that the stress of business
responsibility and working against the clock puts a dangerous strain on health.
The doctors who first pro vidod Uila ingenious Theory. which has earned us sympathe, tic coddling from wives and mother, have now kicked away its foundations.
In convincing compauntive tee they have shown that in aple of all s worries, thu harassed executive is no moje prone to coronary thrombosis, peptic ulcer, anxiety neurosis, and nervous breakdown
than
the underlings he harasses, In short the burden of offler k a lot less crushing then mor ixe proland.-
The cradle
I tromble to think of the effect this dincloure will have of domestic habits in horts whore
gilpper-warming been helping busineBA chiefs to take painful earn of themselves ---especialty ht against threat of coronary thrombosiv
But Mere ku no faulting the new ind- ints. So inr
as the heart
wives.
By
Have
DOCTORS NOW DECIDE
THAT IT'S THE MEN
BELOW WHO NEED TO WATCH THE WORRY
plelon that emotional strees can individual gets on and off the aruin the heart or damage the job and his nutrition, before he arteries.
reaches middle age," Saya Dr Edward Luongo, who directed the Los Angeles inmulty.
Other doctors have even destroyed the well-established theory that stomach and ducional ulcem are the result of excessive stress and respon- ability.
the
Stress
crystallised in
THA Vellaf,
qulp about the two-ulcer man trying to do a three-ulcer job, was one of the planks of psychosomatic medicine -- the teaching that physical symp- 'oms can be produced by quirka of the mind.
Yet inquiries by the Social Medicine Unit at Oxford have shown flint duoGEN{"""""WETTE are as common among labourers
most among the
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CHAPMAN
PINCHER
hunted- Looking managing directors, and stomach ul- cers are even Common T.
It seems to be the same story with an- xlely neurosis. and nervous breakdown. Such stress symptoms us WETL found la the Las Feries are
Angeles stucky concerned they were made in the seemed to be more intimately very cradle of the conummercial related to home life than to tho coronary---New York City-in a office. They were as common 70-storey, concrcie art-heap among the clerks as among the where men ary: perpetuntly bosses, for family discord is no preasured by ticker-tapeS and respecter of rank or income
and the
1
three-to-a-disk telephones.
Less trouble
level.
Arc
This means tant an ambitious self-driving man need not bo- come a candidate for curunny on the promotion day when he gels his name on his office door, provide he remember: twu rules:
Lethargy is more lethal than overwork. One b business lunch can put more strain on the heart than a dozen difeult deals.
A
ANTI
TER ACT
"That's the Sherlock Holmos who reported me for dropping a toffoo paper on the beat."
REPORT ON A SUBJECT EVERY
MAN GETS ROUND TO
The changing shape
of the Englishman
(FOR EVIDENCE, JUST LOOK ALONG THE BEACH!)
TS the English ideal of BY DR HENRY ERICKSEN
an Adonis changing?
Reading J. W. M.
He photographed, measured type," And, says Sheldon, one- Thompson's American and weighed thousands of of the purposes of trousers to He hide legs too ccto for the rest
Newsletter last week Americans of all classes.
even included In his Allas of of the physique.
n
Cormier
The three types: Ecto
(tall and skinny), Endo (short and fat),
Meso (Mr. Universe).
Clothes look better on
WORRYING
ABOUT
ecios.
Dr Parnell found 570 Mr
khaki monstrosities with long never went
beyond being on
Tall
with its description of Men two or three murderers and The endomorph likes to eat, In a London sludy Dr Philip his visit to a New York farger. Similar studies have been The mesomorph is rarin to go, a most accomplished cheque sleep and keep out of trouble. Hopkins found that "atress
commonest health club, made me done at Oxford by Dr R. W. but, at a cocktail party, the ecte bench. symptoms
smaller will usually drift into n qulet among women. Chut of 375 wonder what ideal of Paul, though on
-scale. women he examined, 50 por
Dr Parne tried to find a Sheldon put each mom into Dr Richard Lea and Dr Ralph rent had same dress disorder manly beauty reigns on Schneider-compared-more than compared wat only 3 per this side of the Atlan- one of three main groups. The connection between the physique Universes at Oxford, but Dr stockings and boots, like tells, ectomorpisic
called them endomsplu (the-of-331-undergraduates and their Sheldon, perhaps because of the collars, and umbrella-sit-muscular, but-net too much, 20
The best much wider range entry and predominantly fat), mecomorphs examination results. division Though bosses and bossed in tie.
First? The the greater number of Amen. best on the ecto, the old fashion- chicfe with an almost
(the ones with more muscle and shape to get a equal the same office may be equally
The beach is the key
Since one),
to to a university, ed English Ident. Beefcake has the Cans who octomorph, and similar prone, to comtiaries,
and cctomorphs number of clerke
(the endomorphic
had a few. 1914-18
He also had a type, never been "U" in England: war swimmin; lanky type). white-collar workera 133 the inbourers repairing the
Everyone has well-padded mil. road tie
the extreme ectomorphile endo- ofside are far less susceptible, and sunbathing have attracted bit of all these in him, but in
Once an morph, the long flabby, who came offices.
millions. And, the
Heavy Increasing doctors
does not seem to make the Today the strip cartoon workers
have only half the millions of pairs of shorts, thou cach one of the thres morphs
tends to predominate.
university in Britain. heart attack mortailty of light sands of gallons of high workers.
1,100 male executives-dires- cent for men.
1ors, managers, and
The middle-aged men carry; ing the big responsibilities had heart trouble and blood pressure than those who could forget their work the moment they clocked out of the building.
The recent emphasis 001 dangers of executive life to the blood
based system may be more on knowledge of the ex- ceptions that of the rule," the
doclum report.
Hot-spot
An independent study in Los Angeles, another high-pressure hol-spot, produced similar re- sults. In Britain, Medical Re searah Council inquiries have to substantiate the mus-
failed
Exercise
the
The
And
Santan
Winner
+
Ecto Land
Top People have a sneaking regard for ectomorphy. Even with women
who are mostly endos, they respect a tall, thtri, welt-bred girl as they might a horse which, among animals; is an ectomorphle beast.
ape
musclemen arc the extreme He found that the commonest The school prefect shape.
mesomorphs. They are far more Jotlugs and creams.
physique was a balance between President of Pup, silm bui
The meso is today's hero, Ile imitated than Uncle Sam and loves to wear shorts, he loves the Sherlock Holmes ever were, Aacol, Henley and Lord'a aro stimming
Mems he endo and the meso with a strong, got most scholarships craze
Oxford but was found, on the open air, he excels at athletics In fact, before the 1914-13 war eclo land. But beefcake takes from the need to look good in slightly less amount of octo. trunks.
then shot his tüther thou cricket, Any doctor known that About 60 in every 1,000. Further, whole, to have
the extreme meso was often precedence at the Serpentine or And
shorts the
vre quite referred to in fiction as "a by the sea, for every inon who slints to h described a quality he called bolt, Mr Universe is an extreme This implies even more
meso- different from English upper- great brute of a mun". and it is
or "an Adonis has become a weight- Improve his health, a hundred the T component" best ex- mesomorph evidence for the Allm from vanity. It is not good plained as "it" over and above morphs who look best on the class sharts. Those knee-length ape." The Hero of the Regiment lifter, welcome mollyeoddled middle-aged man
for you to be overweight but in the group. exerting enough the majority, health is not the People vary, too, from one part · he is not physical effort to keep himself driving force behind slimming, of the body to another. For In good insurable health. He Is The plan is to cut a decent figure instance. Nile Valley Negroes desk-bound, rides to work, and at the beach, the lido, the pool. have very long arms and legs, Laker minimum exercise at
What type of physique looks an ectu trait out of proportion to week-ends.
best without clothes? Quite the rest of the body. Coupled with this is the cer- | different one from a tallor's falmy that too many calories, a ideal, A pollte prase foù excessive cating and drinking, are damag- Ing to the heart and arterion. coronary "The incidence of disease does not appear to be governed by occupational titles more by what exercise on
bu
Deception
can Lash
Al American, Dr Sheldon, hus long been interested
At ull ages, decoption Many 11 Kiri relating physique to the sort of creep in, person you are. He thinks that married what at the time she graceful the shape of your body may he thought a handsome the outward and visible sign of knight who, at 36, developed his The inner man.
true figure, the "bay window
ZANIES
SHOWRA
IF YOU LIVED IN
CYPRUS TODAY...
16 Rules In The
Art Of Staying
Alive
BRITONS in Cyprus have
been given an official leaflet telling them in 16 lessons how to stay alive. Civilians and soldiers, it says, are terrorist targets. The stay-alive rules
are:
NEVER see a caller in the office If you have not met him before or without someone else present.
LOOK out of the window for suspicious loiterers before leaving home.
If you see one, toll the police and stay inside,
AT night never mvitch on the hall light. Challenge all callers
through the front door opening it.
before
AVOID regular hoblis. Better late or carly at the oilce than nover getting there.
DON'T confide in Cypriot cervants. The maid may be all right but her boy friends are probably Boka.
KEEP 1 dog if your house is isolated. KEEP windows and shutters' closed. Don't walk about the streuls. If you use a bicycle, cycle with others. Better, use
А са
BACKS TO THE WALL
ALWAYS stond wilk your back toʻn WALLE
Avold the approach of Cypriot youths, Shop by phone or in the Turkish quarter of Busy suburbs,
LOCK up your garage andi immobliiso your car all the time.
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From DONALD WISE: Nicosia.
AVOID trame jama and all traffic lights.
USE a shoulder or belt holster for your platol, where you can draw it quick-
DON'T drive near the pavement, Watch out for youths if you have to slow down, particularly those in overcoats with their hands in their pockets.
when
IF anyone approaches the cuF it slows down, tell him in plain lohgunge, preferably Greek, to move on. It he argues, grob him and sve. It hó is urged.
If anyone approachow your cor with a pistol or bomb or attempts to draw a gun, do not hesitate to shoot him, preferably In the centre of the body so that you either kill him or wound Pilt too badly to escape. Go on firing antli ho falls.
· LOCK office drawers; Hoop the keys on you, becauso bocabe may be placed to explode when the dowware, sro opasok.
"Come homo, John fear, all is forgiven!"
"This will be my seventh
∙Bill Tidy
tomato cocktail,"
Lamy
P.a i
*Tec bed.........he locked the door"