Mr. U awoke one morning to a disturbing discovery. A panicky feeling welled up from the depths of the little pot­belly that had begun to bulge out below his belt. He glanced across the breakfast table at Mrs. U. Dismayed, he realized for the first time that the woman facing him was in the same unpleasant fix he now found himself: He was getting old— and so was she!

Pushing aside his cereal bowl of crunchy, crackly Snappies (liberally sprinkled with refined sugar), he laid down his slice of so-called "enriched" white bread toast. His usual zest for breakfast was gone.

Why did people have to grow old so soon? He was only forty-six. Why shouldn't he feel peppy and look young for at least another forty or fifty years?

Look at old Joe Jenks, who had lived on a neighboring farm when he was a boy.

Joe had gotten up before sunrise every morning, did more work than the hired man, ate heartily, slept like a top, took a young second wife, and pooh-poohed anybody who tried to tell him that his eighty-odd years made him a ready candidate for a coffin. The old fellow had fooled the whole community by living, hale and hearty, well into his nineties.

What was wrong? Why shouldn't men and women keep on looking and feeling young and alive past that momentous fortieth birthday? No reason, actually, why everyone past forty shouldn't look and feel young and vigorous.

What I am going to discuss in these next three hundred pages is the kind of information you'll find in few other books. The facts about why premature old age is creeping up on you and every other person past his thirties (I consider any "old age" before the middle nineties to be premature) will astonish you by their simplicity and logic.

"In heaven's name," you break in at this point, "why hasn't somebody told me these things before now?"

I've no doubt some author has tried to impress you long before this with the need to "look to your youth." But the chances are the facts were not stated clearly or forcibly enough to convince you that there is something definite you can do right away to halt premature aging.

Every word in this book is designed to give you a simple, inexpensive common-sense program that should lift the burden of age from your tired, well-fed-yet-starved body like the touch of a magic wand.

Old Joe Jenks, and others like him whom you remember from your childhood days, were not freaks of nature simply because they lived long and vigorously. The truth of the matter is that Old Joe and other near-centenarians like him are actually throwbacks to those days when men and women lived prolonged, healthy, active lives as a matter of course— and not as the result of any whim of nature.

That "eccentric" nonagenarian you remember from your kid days was really a sort of relic from the long-ago era when the human race lived out its generously allotted span of years in vigor and usefulness.

What makes us so different today? Frankly, there are certain isolated groups of people on the face of this modern globe who do not age as quickly as the American Mr. and Mrs. U.

What I observed at firsthand during my recent tour of sev­eral South American countries did much to confirm certain nutritional studies I've had under way for a number of years on "how to cheat the calendar." We'll drop in on some of those amazingly youthful below-the-equator neighbors of ours a little later on.

There are no two ways about it—we just aren't living as long and as vigorously in this mid-twentieth century (despite insurance company tables on increased "life expectancy") as did the peoples of ancient times.

Perhaps I should amend that to read "you won't allow yourself to live as long and as vigorously." Not that you con­sciously set about shortening your life. But you have been seduced down the dietary path to early and inevitable mur­der—murder of your youth, good looks, pep, radiant vitality and chances to live out a generous span of years. And the "murderer" is none other than yourself, aided and abetted by the high-pressure advertising of unscrupulous, profit-conscious processors of devitalized and artificial foods.

At first you may be inclined to raise a skeptical eyebrow at this accusation. But after I've finished supplying the facts to support my charge, whether or not you choose to accept the evidence and return an indictment against yourself as the unwitting murderer of your own youthfulness is your democratic privilege. Yet the reader who accepts his own guilt and sentences himself to immediate corrective measures is the person who is going to feel and actually look a. whole lot younger this time next year than his calendar age!

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