Chapter the fourth: This distant island in the ocean…
People who live in this village insular state of Tonga, about which I read in an article by Dmitriy Semenovich, also, each of their thousand citizens participates in the world's first budgeted government contest on weight reduction. And as the photographs graphically show, the formation of full figures on the tennis court indicates that not many places on the land are in such need of like action.
Devyanostosemitysyachnoe population of the Kingdom of Tonga, located in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, 3320 kilometers to the NORTHEAST from Sydney, is closely faced with the problem of general obesity…
The whole scholastic group rejoiced for Tarasyana. The person on the Buteyko method has simply come alive!
— But is it possible for me sometimes to drink my home grape wine now? — taking me by the hand, asked Eduard Asadurovich.
— On this count, Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko also has his criterion, — I answered Tarasyan somewhat noncommittally.
— And what is this criterion? — Tarasyan, elated by the successful treatment of his hypertension, vividly asked me.
— Well, Konstantin Pavlovich, as a physician, certainly does not greet the use of alcohol by the sick, and even more so by infarct patients, — I explained. — But to whom much he wants, he answers so: "I allow you to take so many grams of light wine as your maximum pause — 20 seconds indicates twenty grams. If 80 seconds — you can drink 80 grams…" Intoxicated by the victory of treatment of his hypertension, Tarasyan burst out laughing. In his presentations, this was nowhere near the desired dose. But he valued the wisdom of the Teacher.