Low-cholesterol Program. Foods To Avoid.

Soups. All creamed soups are high in fat content. The commercially prepared ones are particularly fat-heavy, and since the fat cannot be readily removed from them, they should not be used. It is always a good idea to read the label carefully on any packaged product from which soup is being made. The law pertaining to the labelling of foods requires a description of any fat contained in the product, so undesirable sources of fat can be avoided.

How Many Years Will Low-fat Living Add To Your Life?

How many years could you add to your life by reducing your weight to normal, and maintaining it there? This is a question that can be answered, and the answer is a dramatic one. No matter what your age may be, you can increase your life span by a definite number of years. What's more, those additional years can be healthy, happy years, full of things that make life worth living - really worth living. In the first six chapters of this book we have heard the part that diet plays in warding off heart disease and in promoting over-all good health. We have seen how your arteries work, and have discovered the nature of the health wrecker - fat. You have been given a program of what foods to eat and what foods to avoid to achieve health, by low-fat living. You have learned how to use dietary supplements and how to count the calories, so as to keep your weight at the proper level. All of these things have been given to you for one purpose - to show you how to live the low-fat way, because the low-fat way is the key to healthier, longer life. Now let's find out how many extra years of health and life you can count on, once you have followed the low-fat way of life.

The Use And Abuse Of Tobacco. Part 3

How can you stop smoking? Perhaps the best insight into "How to Stop Smoking" is Mark Twain's comment: "It's easy to stop smoking - I've done it hundreds of times"! "Doctor," a harassed advertising executive patient of mine said desperately, "I've tried so hard for five years now to give up this awful smoking habit, which I know is so harmful to me, but I just can't seem to be able to. If I stop or even try to, I become so nervous that living with me is utterly impossible. I can't even live with myself. I can't sleep, I can't concentrate, I can't do my work properly, I tremble and go around like Shakespeare's young lover, 'sighing like a furnace,' life doesn't seem worth living. I've tried everything I know or hear of - hypnosis, auto-suggestion, pipes, prayer, preparations on my tongue to make smoking taste bitter, "gimmicks" of all kinds - but I always come back to these - cigarettes. What can I do?" Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was trained originally as a pharmacologist, and was an inveterate, heavy cigar smoker. Undoubtedly, this habit contributed to his death and great suffering from cancer of the mouth and throat. He recognized his addiction to cigar smoking and its toxic effects on his heart. Yet after stopping several times, he couldn't hold out any longer and found it impossible to work or concentrate without smoking. In a letter to a friend he describes this craving as follows: "I have started smoking again since I still missed it after 14 months' absence, and because I must treat that mind of mine decently, or the fellow will not work for me." (Italics mine.) And still later he wrote, "It was impossible for me to entirely stop smoking, because of my present burden of theoretical and practical worries." Clearly these victims of my "lady nicotine" have become "addicts" of tobacco, and are addicted to it like so many other unfortunates who cannot live without opium, sedatives, or marihuana. The moment they stop tobacco they develop "withdrawal" symptoms that can be truly distressful and even agonizing. Luckily most smokers are not addicts enslaved by tobacco. They can break or modify the habit, so that it becomes harmless although still yielding enjoyment.