Medicine: Life Extenders

Three pundits last week gave three different prescriptions for lengthening human life by seven to ten years. Two of the prescriptions were explicit.

¶ Said Nutritionist Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University to the New York Academy of Medicine: ''Simple redistribution of the present expenditures for food, and this without omitting any article of food to which any consumer is accustomed, but merely by easy shifting of relative proportions, can undoubtedly contribute greatly to the advancement of the standard of health and vitality in the coming years" Eaters for longevity should take all...

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