Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-06
MEN OVER SIS YEARS
Don't Need Exercise-Chicaso n.y.
genie Expert Propounds . New
and Startling Theory.

and sartlfng Theory.
CHICAGO, December 5.-Dr. Albert
H. Hoy, after years Of patient re-
search says exercise is positively un-
healthful for men past thirty-ive years
OF age. DR.. Hoy has published book
on Eating and Drinking" which is
praised by the profession. He is a
specialist in hygiene.
Il say that exercise for the business
man or men past middle age is detri-
mental. | exclude the young and the
laborer. Every action, whether of the
brain or of the muscle, destroys cells,
uses up tissue and creates waste mat
ter to be taken up by the blood and
to be eliminated from the system.
Now, unless such waste is elimi-
mated it becomes so much poison in
the system. The great eliminating ma
chine of the human body is the kid
neys. Unless the kidneys do their
work the system is saturated with pois-
ons.
Senator Davis is n Case in Point.
For instance, there is the sad case
Of Senator Davis. His toe was pois-
oned by his stocking and refused TO
heal. Kidney complaint developed, or
rather the kidneys for long time had
not done their full work, and the sys-
tenn was so poisoned that the toe be-
came gangrened.
"The kidneys work easily during
youth-up, say, to thirty-fve years Of
age. But after fifty they become
slightly atrophied, they SHRINK little.
This is not disease, but a simple eff
feet Of age. Consequently, as a man
advances in years he should ask his
kidneys to perform a little less work.
instead of a little more.
"But, suppose a man of business not
only uses his brain during business
hours, but also puts strain on his
muscles afterward. There is waste
then to be carried off, mental waste
and physical waste, the broken-down
brain cells and those OF the muscles
likewise. Thus the kidneys are forced
to do double duty, to eliminate pois-
ons resulting from two sorts of &C.
ton.
"a business man should get all the
exercise he needs from the require
ments Of his business. A long walk
only further calls upon his reserve.
Violent golf or tennis only puts great
er strain upon his system. If he says
he needs fresh air, oxygen, he can get
1t in his Office, if the latter be proper
ly ventilated. He doesn't need to ex-
ercise to breathe fresh air.
Rockefeller Cited.
John ID. Rockefeller drives a fast
horse. That gives him air, but it does
MT give him exercise. Joseph Cham
berlain takes no exercise except what
he gets from stepping from his office
to his carriage. He Is never sick.
Senator William NJ. Evarts is very
old man. He never exercised. That is
his boast.
But business men say, but need
exercise. I do not feel well unless
have it, That means generally that
they eat too much. You can poison
your system by eating too much, put
ting into yourself more than the kid
neys can eliminate. Now Chamberlain,
who takes no exercise, l have no dobt,
is light eater.
when a business man takes a vaca-
ton he can afford much more physical
exercise.
THE athlete is not the best prepared
man to resist disease. | have known
blacksmith to oppose no resistance
to pneumonia and the strongest ath-
lete to die quickly of typhoid.
81 have not been speaking of exer-
else for the young, but the grown man.
Youth needs exercise to build up mus
cles and growing tissues. But while
you see puppies and colts scampering
around, the old dog knows better and
so does the horse. They rest when
they can"