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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

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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"