Healthful Living and Youth
Healthful living according to an intelligent plan will main¬tain a supply of those elements and substances responsible for youthful conditions but which are gradually destroyed by liv¬ing haphazardly. One practically may ignore bacteria as a factor of disease and decay if one lives rationally according to the plan previously suggested in these volumes. The large number of defects often found in those who consider them¬selves in good health—defects that in themselves and taken singly may be trivial, though sometimes serious—indicates that it does not pay to play the ostrich—to keep the mind in ignorance of the real physical status.