Untitled article by M. E. CORNELL

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 7, 1868

DIET.

By M. E. CORNELL

NOTHING can be more apparent to the careful observer, than the fact that a hygienic diet is essential to health and longevity. Physicians who have practiced among the Jews, say that scrofula, fever sores, or cancers, are never found among them, and they attribute it to their careful diet. They never touch the scrofulous swine, and use but moderately of the healthiest of clean animals.

The following from the London Review is in point:

“LONGEVITY OF THE JEWS.

“Throughout Asia the Jew flourishes as if at home. Even in Africa he exhibits no inferiority to the natives in constitutional vigor. * Dr. Neufville, of Frankfort, states the average duration of the life of the Jews of that city to be 48 years and 9 months, that of the rest of the population 36 years and 11 months. During the first five years of life the deaths of Jewish children are scarcely more than one half those of the Christians. Beyond 59 years and 10 months a quarter only of the Christian population will be found alive, but a fourth of the Jewish live to be 71. Dr. Glatter has instituted a comparison between the longevity of the Jewish race and three others in the Austrian dominions, from which he finds that out of a thousand persons deceased, the number who attained an age between 70 and 100 were—of Hungarians 54.4; of Croats 70.6; of Germans 76.7; and of the Jews 120. The longevity of the Jews was noticed by Haller, and attributed, by him, to their sobriety and careful diet.”

M. E. CORNELL.