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I No sugar to add! No beating! THE LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION Eagle Brand Magic Mocha Frosting V3 cups (15-oz. can) Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 tablespoon Borden's Instant Coffee 1 tablespoon water V4 teaspoon salt 2 squares (2 oz.) unsweetened chocolate i teaspoon vanilla extract It's pre-cooked, so it blends per- " fectly with other ingredients. 1. Put Eagle Brand, coffee, wa , ter and salt in top of double boiler; mix well. Add choco late. No beating. Cook over rapid- , ly boiling water, stirring often until thick, about 10 minutes. 3 Cool. Stir in vanilla. Spread . on cooled cake layers and gar ' - nish with nuts. Makes 114 cups, or enough for tops and sides of two 8-inch layers or one dozen cupcakes. FREE! Get Elsie's 28-page full-color recipe book Tke Borden Co. Dept. FW-119, Box 171 New York 46.N.Y. Name Strecl City W I MUM .State. Borden's i Eagle Kg3f Brand Sweetened CwdMd Mtlk berthed,. . , ' J How to Handle Your (This, is the second of a special series of articles excerpted from the new book, "The Life Extensioii Foundation Guide to Better Health," by Dr. Harry Johnson. Copyright 1959 by Life Ex tension Foundation, Inc. Ptiblished by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood CUffs, N. J.) I never cease to be amazed at the end less stream of sick men and women who come to my office unable or un willing to recognize that they have been victimized by their tensions. A typical case was that of a 31-year-old assistant sales manager of a large chemical company. He was a man who had every reason in the world to be in tiptop emotional and physical health. Yet one day I received a near-hysterical telephone call from him. I told him to come right over. When he did, I saw a man who had rapidly gained weight, was extremely pale, and wore an ex pression ' of painful anxiety. - As soon as he sat down he burst into speech: "I think it's my heart. I get dizzy and tired and I perspire easily. I can't focus my eyes when I read. I feel as if the office walls are closing in on me. Sometimes my heart races and pounds so, I think I'm about to faint. I've never been sick like this. I'm worried about my heart." It was obvious to me that this man was in a state of nervous shock, and J told him so. After a thorough examina- . tion had disclosed no organic defect ex cept a moderate elevation of his blood pressure, which was due to his tense state, I then went into his problems more fully. He had been thrust into a position of great responsibility a lot sooner than he had expected. He went overboard try ing to meet that responsibility. Every night he took work home with him and stayed up until past midnight. He aver aged only six hours' sleep. He let him self go completely smoked excessively, drank too much, neglected his recrea tion and exercise, and ate too much. As a crutch, I prescribed tranquiliz ers (for one week only!). I ordered him to get more sleep, more exercise, more relaxation, to cut down his smoking and drinking, and above all to learn to live with his job. He made a remarkable recovery, and I'm confident I won't have to see him 16 Family Weekly, November 15, 1959 TENSIONS "- ttc m Ik ' 1 1 ' f'l-ii-sui r i .J. again on account of illness that is caused by tension. I don't like to split hairs over words, but there is so much nonsensical talk these days about living and working under emotional "stress," "strain," "pressure," and "tension" that we must be more precise about what tension is. Tension is a result, not a cause; it in variably stems from our inability to put up with the pressures of daily living. Suppose, for example, there is a great pile of work on your desk and it has to be done the very next day. Ordinarily, you'd need several days to get it done. But now there isn't that much time. You roll up your sleeves, dig into the pile, do your very best nothing more, nothing less. Pressure? Certainly, there is. But it won't harm you a bit because you ar equal to it. But suppose you don't just do you best when you dig into that pile o work? Suppose you also worry abou it? Suppose you fume, fidget, and fuss' Suppose you start looking for distrac tions in diet, drinking, or smoking Then you are not equal to your pres sures, and if you don't get hold of your self you may soon find you are livin with a weird variety of functional ail ments, real and imaginary. As long as we live we probably sha be under some sort of pressure all th time. We feel it at home and in our per sonal relationships outside the homi We feel it most, perhaps, when we ar on the job, whether we sit behind desk, drive a taxi, or run a farm.
