{"id":4030,"date":"1947-11-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"1947-11-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/november-1947-vol-28-no-11-business-mens-health\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:57:20","slug":"november-1947-vol-28-no-11-business-mens-health","status":"publish","type":"rbc_letter","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/november-1947-vol-28-no-11-business-mens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"November 1947 &#8211; Vol. 28, No. 11 &#8211; Business Men&#8217;s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"layout-column-main\">\n<p class=\"boldtext\">Business men, who pay large sums in taxes                     to defray the cost of public health services, and donate millions                     of dollars every year to health causes, are too often negligent                     about looking after their own well-being.<\/p>\n<p> It is not a fair attitude. Even if they don&#8217;t care, personally,                     whether they live to a green old age (and some really act                     as if that were true) every man owes something to his family,                     his firm and his country. The more successful and enterprising                     he is, the greater gap his passing will leave in many lives.<\/p>\n<p>This article is to suggest that it is time to pause and                     ask: &#8220;How fast am I going &#8211; and where?&#8221; It will not attempt                     to tell what you should or should not do, and it is not a                     prescription for whatever ails you. It will simply point to                     some features about health, and hint at a few things that                     may add happy years to your useful life.<\/p>\n<p>Not all ailments can be pinned down to bodily illness, and                     much of this Monthly Letter will be about upsets originating                     in the mind. It is an indisputable fact that these two &#8211; mind                     and body &#8211; go closely in harness. For this reason physicians                     are more and more breaking away from the last century idea                     of treating a patient&#8217;s body as a kind of phenomenon in a                     vacuum. Symptoms of illnesses must be looked upon as being                     the result of the patient&#8217;s past life, present environment,                     economic, social and cultural experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this letter, when a distinction is made for the                     sake of clarity between body and mind mechanisms, it should                     be recalled that man is a totality whose sorrows and ambitions,                     fears and hopes, all share in determining his physical condition.<\/p>\n<h3>The Changed Pace of Life<\/h3>\n<p>Some are inclined to brush off efforts to improve their                     health with the statement that bad health is the inevitable                     result of the changed pace at which life is lived; Earlier                     civilizations had, relative to their stage of development,                     just as onerous conditions, just as exciting and worrisome                     experiences, but they were forced, by the lack of modern inventions,                     to have periods of inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>As illustrations, consider the following:<\/p>\n<p>The absence of adequate artificial light forced many projects                     to be confined to daylight hours: now they are carried on                     into the night.<\/p>\n<p>The slowness of transportation gave much more leisure in                     travelling, though there was less comfort.<\/p>\n<p>The slow rate of communication forced transactions to be                     spread over a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>The dearth of professional entertainment &#8211; stage, screen,                     radio and others &#8211; left time for meditation and thought.<\/p>\n<p>The dispersal of a smaller population over rural districts                     provided fewer social contacts than are necessitated by today&#8217;s                     urban crowding.<\/p>\n<p>As a prominent physician said to us when discussing this                     subject: &#8220;Not so very many years ago the words &#8216;meditation&#8217;                     and &#8216;contemplation&#8217; commanded a good deal of respect. Some                     people published their &#8216;Meditations&#8217;, and &#8216;The Contemplative                     Life&#8217; was considered to be quite respectable and not without                     value to the community. Since then, in our Western civilization,                     the fashion has grown of putting more emphasis on &#8216;doing&#8217;                     rather than &#8216;thinking&#8217;. Many people have formed the habit                     of filling every waking hour with &#8216;doing something&#8217;, so that                     they are incapable of spending an hour alone with their thoughts                     without being bored and unhappy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the change one principle holds true: whatever                     the strain or crisis, whipping a tired horse may make it go                     faster for a lap or two, but it doesn&#8217;t help the horse&#8217;s physical                     well-being. On occasion, such as in time of war, men                     and women become expendable and are used up at a fast rate.                     In normal times no man owes it to himself or to anyone else                     to whip himself into physical or nervous exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>People, of course, deny that they are under tension or strain.                     They think that to admit being upset would be somehow degrading.                     They keep piling up grains of irritation, like the drunken                     Rip Van Winkle in Jefferson&#8217;s play, who excused himself for                     every fresh tipple by saying: &#8220;I won&#8217;t count this one.&#8221; Well,                     he may not count it, but it is being counted none the less.                     Down among the cells and tissues the count goes on, registering,                     and storing it up to be used against him. &#8220;Nothing we ever                     do,&#8221; said Professor James, &#8220;is, in strict scientific literalness,                     wiped out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Emotions<\/h3>\n<p>It is wrong to look upon emotional states as merely reflecting                     bodily states. They quite as often determine the well-being                     of the body. Not hard work, but bottled-up emotion is                     the corrosive force eating away many a man&#8217;s health and tranquillity.<\/p>\n<p>We are told by a Montreal physician that evidence from scientific                     investigation suggests that the emotions arise from the region                     of the inter-brain, an area below the cerebral cortex                     which is concerned mainly with thought and intelligence. They                     make manifest their effects through the involuntary nervous                     system which is mainly distributed to internal organs of the                     body, such as the heart and blood vessels, the kidneys, the                     stomach and intestines, the glands of internal secretion and                     involuntary muscles. Therefore, as one might suspect, the                     effect of emotions is mainly felt by these organs.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the centre for emotions being below the                     cerebrum or &#8220;thinking&#8221; part of the brain suggests they developed                     at an earlier stage in our evolution. It is believed that                     they were important means of defence which enabled our remote                     ancestors to survive. For example, anger marshalled all the                     powers of the body to fight; fear caused flight from danger;                     love perpetuated the race.<\/p>\n<p>The function of the emotions has been partially taken over                     by the intellect, and the thinking part of our brain is able                     to modify them to some extent, but not completely. Thus we                     cannot stop growing angry, feeling afraid or being in love,                     but we can control the effect of our emotions to a considerable                     extent.<\/p>\n<p>These emotions which were so useful and necessary to our                     ancestors are quite often a nuisance and a danger in our present                     civilization, although they are still of definite value. Perhaps                     the most difficult task every man has to face during life                     is to modify and control his emotions so that he will preserve                     their values and avoid their ill-effects.<\/p>\n<h3>Worry<\/h3>\n<p>Let&#8217;s mention worry as one ingredient in tension. Everyone                     knows that a man in laughing, cheerful, kindly, happy mood                     is less likely to be sick or fatigued than if his mood is                     one of discontent, grief or despair, but many persons who                     are doing important jobs find themselves in need of treatment                     because their moods are getting them down.<\/p>\n<p>It is generally conceded that worry can be beaten if problems                     are honestly sought out, faced up to, and analysed. If the                     problem is actually your business, don&#8217;t brush it aside. Tackle                     it. If you solve it, you have nothing more to worry about;                     if it is a problem you can&#8217;t solve after honestly trying,                     then you must write it off as you do a bad debt. Should the                     worry be about something that is not your business, or something                     remote about which you can do nothing, make a clean sweep                     of it out of your mind.<\/p>\n<p>Some people will say: &#8220;It&#8217;s easy enough to talk like that,                     but not so easy to do.&#8221; Right there is where the danger lies.                     Just as soon as a useless worry shows signs of seizing a firm                     hold upon you is the time to abandon appeasement and take                     grim measures. The resulting effort will not be nearly so                     difficult as you think, nor so depressing as the effect of                     allowing worry to degenerate into nervous breakdown.<\/p>\n<h3>Heart Diseases<\/h3>\n<p>Heart diseases account for more deaths in North America                     than the total of the next five major causes of death. The                     fatalistic acceptance of this situation may be caused by an                     apathetic &#8220;it can&#8217;t be helped &#8211; it&#8217;s part of human nature&#8221;                     outlook, similar to the way people looked upon plagues in                     the 14th and 15th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hans Selye, whose recently published volume in the monumental                     &#8220;Encyclopedia of Endocrinology&#8221; is hailed as a great contribution                     to medicine, has made interesting&#8221; statements regarding heart                     ailments. Dr. Selye, whose laboratory is in the University                     of Montreal building, has conducted ten years&#8217; intensive research,                     and just a few months ago he told a Maclean&#8217;s Magazine writer                     he believes diseases of the heart and circulatory system are                     the result of continual worry, fear and overwork. They are                     diseases practically unknown among animals in their natural                     state and among primitive peoples living an agrarian life.                     However, once affected, the heart needs treatment, and Dr.                     Selye is attacking this clinical part of the job in hospitals                     in both Canada and the United States by both diet and medication.                     Dr. John A. Oille, one of Canada&#8217;s leading heart specialists,                     contributed an article on &#8220;Exercise the Heart&#8221; to a recent                     issue of the magazine &#8220;Health&#8221;. If given reasonable work to                     do, says Dr. Oille, the heart will perform in a way to put                     the best man-made machine to shame.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Nothing Organically Wrong&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Many of us become puzzled when, feeling badly, we visit                     the doctor and he tells us there is nothing organically wrong                     with us. Certainly, the suffering seems real enough to us.                     If it keeps up, even after the physician&#8217;s assurance, it probably                     means that we are the victims of tension.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble in your stomach or a pain in your neck or the feeling                     that you are coming down with pneumonia may all result from                     emotional unrest, and this, if neglected, may lead into nervous                     disorders of various kinds. Probably no affliction is more                     misunderstood. in spite of its widespread nature. In an article                     in Nation&#8217;s Business for June entitled &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Have To                     Cut Paper Dolls&#8221;, Lawrence Galton points out that nervous                     breakdown is mowing an ever widening swath through the ranks                     of big and little business men. Actually, he says, it is just                     an emotional crackup, of which the cause is not work or weariness                     but worry.<\/p>\n<p>The remedy sometimes suggested is to return to the simple                     life. It is said that while modern invention has relieved                     physical drudgery it has increased the nervous strain. Dr.                     William Harvey, renowned as the first authority to describe                     the circulation of the blood (in 1616) contributed in an interesting                     way to this thought. Dr. Harvey carried out an autopsy on                     Thomas Parr, who died at the rather advanced age of 152 years                     and 9 months after working hard until he had passed his 130th                     birthday. Dr. Harvey attributed Parr&#8217;s death to the change                     from a frugal diet of subrancid cheese, milk and coarse hard                     bread to the rich feeding he received in London, and to the                     change from the healthy air of Shropshire to the foggy climate                     of the metropolis. He also dwelt upon the important fact that                     Parr, by leading a peasant&#8217;s life, free from care owing to                     its simplicity, contributed to his very advanced age. Parr,                     who left a son who lived to be 127, was buried in Westminster                     Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>Parr&#8217;s kind of &#8220;simple life&#8221; has little appeal to men of                     affairs, and today&#8217;s people would not be willing to exchange                     the variety and pleasure of their way of life for the chance                     of living to 152 in the dullness of Parr&#8217;s village. And yet,                     many of these selfsame moderns could increase their enjoyment                     of life and keep living for a longer time if they brought                     into their lives just a little bit of the calmness, regularity                     and sensible eating and drinking usually associated in our                     thoughts with a country village.<\/p>\n<p>It is not necessary to return to the &#8220;simple life&#8221; of former                     times completely and permanently, but it might be wise to                     make an occasional and partial return. This might well be                     done on annual holidays or weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Leisure hours are frequently not used in a manner to give                     health and relaxation. The city club, the golf club, the summer                     home in the country, and even the holiday itself are too often                     used for business entertainment and the promotion of business                     affairs and contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Each person must work out his own salvation regarding the                     kind of holiday that will do him the greatest amount of good,                     but if he gives the matter some thought he is likely to do                     better than if he just blindly follows custom.<\/p>\n<h3>What to do About Health<\/h3>\n<p>The first thing is to start both prevention and cure early,                     a principle emphasized in every one of our articles dealing                     with health. It isn&#8217;t necessary to have a complete breakdown                     of the works before seeking an overhaul job. Even if all that                     is wrong is a personality kink, it&#8217;s better to get it straightened                     out before it ties itself into a hard knot. Frightening pains                     and symptoms often do not arise until the damage is expensive.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, something has happened, and it is too late                     for prevention, then action must be taken to recover the lost                     ground and prevent further slipping. Self-prescribed                     medicines, fads and cults may be harmless diversions, but                     they do not cure. Only analysis of the situation and discovery                     of the cause can lead to treatment which will effect a permanent                     cure. Only a skilled physician is competent to diagnose your                     condition.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few simple things people can do to help keep                     their bodies and minds in good working condition. They should                     slow down and relax every once in a while. Relaxation isn&#8217;t                     magic, but it does give the body a chance to pull itself together.<\/p>\n<p>Next to rest comes exercise. Persons who have continuous                     and heavy responsibilities need to engage in outdoor activity.                     Watching a game creates tension: participating in it is relaxation,                     but it is just the best kind of serious and responsible persons                     who either have no time for exercise or content themselves                     with attending games as spectators. The kind and extent of                     exercise to be taken depends upon age, weight, and stage of                     fitness, and if you have not kept in training don&#8217;t start                     in suddenly without consulting your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Nutrition is important. We have it on authority of Dr. C.                     Ward Crampton, at one time chairman of preventive medicine                     of the New York County Medical Association, that whether a                     man at 60 will be as vigorous as the average man of 40 or                     decrepit and miserable as the average octogenarian depends                     largely on diet. Men and women in middle life hesitate to                     ask for food different from that of the rest of the family,                     and as a consequence they often get too little calcium, iron                     and protein, and eat too much starch and sugar. If there is                     a lack of calcium, for example, the blood will rob the bones                     to get what it needs, and hence the bones of old people break                     easily. It is well to check with a medical practitioner whether                     your body is using efficiently the food you are eating. The                     most perfect food is useless if your digestive system does                     not absorb it.<\/p>\n<p>The habit of self-medication with sedative drugs settles                     nothing, heals nothing and gives only fictitious ease. At                     the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association                     in Montreal this year it was reported by a New York psychiatrist                     that overindulgence in bromides leads to four principal varieties                     of psychoses, sometimes piling up one psychosis on top of                     another. Simple bromide intoxication is characterized by dullness,                     sluggishness, forgetfulness and irritability. The administration                     of some few drugs, if given under the direction of a skilled                     and competent physician, may be of temporary benefit and thus                     enable the patient to be more capable of giving calm and thoughtful                     consideration to his problems.<\/p>\n<h3>Making Business Life Easier<\/h3>\n<p>Many factors enter into making a good business man, but                     probably the basic need is physical and mental health. Alertness                     has to be coupled with sober judgment and clarity of thought.                     i11 guiding his subordinates over obstacles and past dangers,                     the executive faces a demand upon his energy that only virility                     of body and keenness of mentality can supply.<\/p>\n<p>An important feature about the lives of successful business                     men is that they have schooled themselves to save themselves.                     The executive who takes things coolly has, apparently, plenty                     of time. He does not seem burdened by his task, yet he gets                     through more work with less fuss than the man in the next                     office who says he can spare you only two minutes. The first                     man has learned to channel his steam through the cylinders                     where it does the most effective work; the second lets it                     go through the whistle, making a lot of noise but wasting                     its force. The busier and more efficient the man, the clearer                     his desk, the clearer his mind, and the better prepared he                     is to tackle new problems.<\/p>\n<p>A rational plan of living would ease the tension of business                     life greatly. Contrary to what was confidently expected back                     in war years, the pressure of business life has not eased                     off. It may be time for a slow down, time to defend yourself                     against subordinates whose principal job in life seems to                     be building molehills into mountains for you to dispose of;                     time to dispense with impossible standards, such as that of                     being perfect in everything. The executive who is right most                     of the time is doing very well, and if he is content to be                     right most of the time he is keeping his mental balance. It                     is time to abandon the flashiness of great bursts of speed,                     impressive though they may be, in favour of steady work at                     a moderate pace. It is time to recall that behaving excitedly                     does not pay off in results for an executive nearly as well                     as carrying out his task in a calm manner. No mere mask of                     composure will do. It is the inward peace and relaxation that                     counts in your health, not the pretense assumed to create                     an impression.<\/p>\n<h3>More Men Live Longer<\/h3>\n<p>More men are living well into their second forty years than                     ever before. Half a century ago the average life expectancy                     at birth was between 45 and 50 years; today it is nearly twenty                     years longer. Much of the increase is due to control of diseases                     which formerly took great toll of young people. The science                     of medicine, the spread of good sanitation, and strides in                     agriculture have contributed to longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Our population is getting older. Between 1921 and 1941 the                     number of people from 0 to 19 decreased from 43.4 to 37.5                     per cent of total population, while persons 65 and over increased                     from 4.8 to 6.7 per cent of total population. Here are the                     figures for Canada, abstracted from census reports twenty                     years apart:<\/p>\n<table width=\"415\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"smltabletxt\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">1921<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">1941<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">Increase<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">Per cent increase<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Total population<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">8,787,949<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">11,506,655<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">2,718,706<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">30.94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Ages 0 &#8211; 19:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">3,816,110<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">4,318,586<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">502,476<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">13.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Ages 0 &#8211; 64:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">8,368,859<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">10,738,840<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">2,369,981<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">28.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Ages 65 and over:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">419,000<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">767,815<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">348,725<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\">83.21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Interpretation of the significances in that last column                     must await another time. They affect all of social and economic                     life, the strength of the nation now and in the next generation.                     In this Letter we are concerned mainly with the thought that                     so many more persons are living into ages which, as regards                     health, were always referred to as the &#8220;dangerous ages&#8221;. It                     is commonplace to have people say: &#8220;Oh, well, after 40 you                     can&#8217;t expect&#8230;&#8221; this and that.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that science has not found an injection that                     provides renewed youth at forty, but it can show how to continue                     some of the advantages of youth into these later years.<\/p>\n<h3>The Art of Living<\/h3>\n<p>There are four main components of life from adolescence                     on: work, recreation, physical health and mental health. When                     these four are balanced, and lead us along creative lines,                     then life can be very satisfying and will be enjoyed longer.<\/p>\n<p>How are we to achieve this balance? First of all it is necessary                     to recall that the factors are closely related. If you are                     emotionally upset, unhappy in your work, deprived of an outlet                     for your creative urges, your depression may cause pain symptoms                     in your body.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing is to realize that no hocus-pocus is going                     to make you over. Get competent advice, start periodical medical                     examination, and believe your physician. Don&#8217;t shy away from                     new practices just because they are different from those to                     which your grandparents were accustomed.<\/p>\n<p>It is not so many years ago that &#8220;psychology&#8221; was a highbrow                     word whose users were looked upon as faddists. Today every                     high school child knows that it means the science that deals                     with the human mind and its activities, a science which has                     yielded knowledge of boundless value to people of this era.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, &#8220;psychoanalysis&#8221; was a new word not long ago,                     and because of misunderstanding and abuse it fell into disrepute.                     Since it means simply a study of the subconscious mind there                     need be nothing fearsome about it, and just because a few                     followers years ago garbled the teachings of Freud is no reason                     to brush aside a useful aid to mental health.<\/p>\n<p>There has recently come into use another expression which                     conveys a truth of vast importance to mankind&#8211;the                     connection between mind and matter. It is &#8220;psychosomatic (psyche                     &#8211; soul; soma &#8211; body) medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The business man having made up his mind that though he                     feels no aches and pains he had better take ordinary precautions                     by having a medical examination, may learn that he needs something                     more than medicine. He will find today&#8217;s physicians qualified                     in this field. More and more people are gaining relief at                     the hands of regular physicians who devote themselves to rational                     psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>The world does not owe anyone health or wealth: they have                     to be earned. Everybody wishes so to live that he shall extract                     the greatest satisfaction from living, and it is in this pursuit                     that the art of living manifests itself. Many people fail                     in the quest because they never clearly think out just what                     the most satisfactory things for them may be.<\/p>\n<p>Human beings lead all other animals in the ability to deceive                     themselves, and it is a common experience for men to devote                     much time and energy to gaining something which proves in                     the end to be not what they wanted at all. To live wisely                     and well is indeed an art and he who gains skill in this greatest                     of all arts is favoured of the gods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"rbc_letter_theme":[],"rbc_letter_year":[27],"class_list":["post-4030","rbc_letter","type-rbc_letter","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","rbc_letter_year-27"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>November 1947 - Vol. 28, No. 11 - Business Men&#039;s Health - RBC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/november-1947-vol-28-no-11-business-mens-health\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"November 1947 - Vol. 28, No. 11 - Business Men&#039;s Health - RBC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Business men, who pay large sums in taxes to defray the cost of public health services, and donate millions of dollars every year to health causes, are too often negligent about looking after their own well-being. 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