Dr. Reubin Andres, a doctor who greatly advanced the study of diabetes, died on September 23rd at the age of 89. Andres was born in Dallas Texas on June 13th, 1923. Originally, Andres only knew how to speak Yiddish, but slowly started to speak more and more English as he got older. His daughter said his dead was due to congestive heart failure. He was first well known after giving a conference in New York about obesity. After countless studies, Andres realized the weight recommendations for younger people was too high, and the weight recommendations for older folks was too low. He concluded that to live longer, people should maintain a certain weight until about the age of forty, where from there out they should gain a pound or two every year, until about the age of 70. Originally, people thought that continuing to be in really great shape as you get older was the way to beat the aging process, but this is not true. It is better that as you get older you have a little extra weight on you. However, Andres says he is not encouraging obesity. In the late 1980's, Andres published his first book and it was an early success. Dr. Andres also developed a method that helped patient with type 2 diabetes and won many awards for this. It goes on to say where Andres studied for high school as well as college and who he is survived by. All of this information was in the New York Times.
Another article, written about Reubin Andres death as well was in the Baltimore Sun Newspaper. However, it was not quite as lengthy, it still covered all of the basic information that the New York Times did. The first difference I noticed was, it said that Andres died of heart problems, instead of congestive heart failure. Also in the same article it mentions Andres having a brief stint in the army for five years and working as a doctor. Other than that it has all of the same information on how he grew up only speaking Yiddish, what high school he went to, what colleges he went to, and who he is survived by.
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