Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-18
The Art of Preserving Health.

What We call labor is human activity
applied to various materials and objects
for the attainment OF some useful result.
Tue necessity of labor to secure sub.
sistence seems to be prOvidential ar
rangement to preserve our race from the
ruinous effects Of incidence. The laws
of health as we'll as the necessities OF life
demand the activity which their labors
impose.
But the labor in which mankind en-
gage must be guided by intelligence to
be effective, and must be supplemented
by other Ainds of exercise to preserve
the physical system in healthful condi
tion. A given pursuit calls into exercise
only portion, and sometimes a small
portion. Of the muscles of tho body.
Some vocations exercise the hands and
arms only, while the whole body is in.
active; others include the whole muscu-
lar system, but exclude the brain, and
still others work tho brain only. And
tho tendency Of modern life is to over.
work narrow portion Of the constitu-
ton, and underworld the remainder.
There are but few persons whose
habitual activities are 80 complete as
to render unnecessary artificial exer-
tons. Hence, the relation of exercise
to health, is an important department
OF our subject.
The human body is full of life, with
out voluntary exercise The vital
functions. digestion, circulation, respi,
ration and secretion, are carried on in
dependently of the will. These give
rise to large and constant amount of
activity in the system. But labor and
exercise require the action of the volun-
tary muscles; and healthful condition
of the involuntary depends upon the
proper activity of the voluntary. All
vital power is deprived from the force
stored up in the food. But to maintain
the voluntary muscles in state of
activity, involves an extra requisition
upon the involuntary organs. Hence
the greater the amount Of activity the
more food is required to supply the
wasted energy of the involuntary func-
tons,
Exercise, then, is at the expense of
waste, and waste involves repair Habit
ual exercise is both the cause and con-
dition of vital renovation. The circu.
lation of the blood ministers directly to
all the functions, and hence its energy
rises and falls with the activity of these
functions. Exercise increases the move
ments of the heart, and the flow Of
blood through all parts of the body.
And as the nutritive materials are con-
stantly drawn from this complex stream
of life blood, the waste is moro readily
supplied when tn, voluntary muscles
are more active. Exercise also Increases
the productions of animal heat. In
creased activity of the muscles not only
increases the circulation of the blood,
but warns the body also. Walking
warns the feet; whipping the hands
about the body, and rubbing the ears.
on cold winters day, prevents them
from freezing; and laboring men are
comfortable in their ''shirt Sleeves"
while idle men need overcoats. These
facts illustrate.
Now whatever quickens the pulse has
tens the breathing. but respiration
furnishes oxygen, which is the prime
mover of all vital changes. 1t also
rids the system of carbonic acid, which
is the chief product of these changes.
Hence the unimpeded respiration re-
sulting from exercise indispensable to
health. That this vitalizing power may
always be supplied in abundance, exer-
else should be taken in the open air.
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