Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
HOW TO KEEP WELL.

1t is better to take p;easurable and ex-
hilarating exercise in the open air, on
green playing fields, than to swelter in
smoky cities and lounge at street cor
ners or in crowded cafes.
For games, when rightly INDUCED in.
constitute for those who are perfectly
sound in wind and limb most healthful
recreation.
At the same time one must not think
that the participate. in games is a means
of gaining health for those who are
weakly or who are suffering from some
illness, whether functional or otherwise
AS a matter of fact, even those who are
hale, well and strong and full of insty
life often find that certain Of the conse-
uuences both direct and indirect, of
games are not altogether favorable to
good health, while for the ailing or deli
cate person they are in nine cases out of
ten most injurious, and certainly not to
be recommended.
1t must be remembered that there is no
such thing as an ''all-round" game-that
is to say, that there is no game which
impartially exercises and develops all the
muscles of the BODY. In nearly every
well known athletic pastime one part of
the body will be found to be developed at
the expense of the others. Certainly
there is tendency in this erection
Now when muscle is exercised, a GER
tain amount of wasted tissue is burnt up,
and the flow of blood toward the parts
affected is stimulated
The tissues call. as it were, to the blood
for assistance. They ask it to bring more
oxygen, more nutrition to them to replace
the matter that has been burnt up by
exercise And the blood responds to the
appeal 1t fowe in increasing volume TO
the parts exercised, which thus withdraw
some of the life giving fluid from organs
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than they do
Saw YOU are sufferer from chronic
dyspepsia and that your digestive organs
are weakly and their functions disorgan-
lied. You take part in some game. You
Bring violently into play, perhaps shortly
after meal, certain muscles. These mus
cles draw blood to them. Your digestive
organs. already weak, are still further en-
feebled by the dimnution in theNSupply
of the blood that norishes thenr And,
therefore as a result of the exercise you
have taken, your maady, instead of being
cured. as YOU had hoped it would be, is
actually aggravated.
Any one who suffers from any chest or
lung complaint should eschew vigorous
athletic pastimes as he would eschew
damp sheets and wet footwear Too many
are unaware of the urgent necessity of
this my chest wants developing, they
argue; Exercise does undoubtedly de-
yelop the chest therefore" they conclude
most illogically, 81 must play games.
They forget that exercise can be OBJ
tanned in other ways than by taking part
in athletic contests. 1t is not the possess
sion of the cricketer the cyclist, the oars
man, the footballer alone. Quiet. gentle,
physical movements, SCIENTIFICALLY direct
ed. regularly and carefully performed, VIII
do more to develop the chest than any
amount of haphazard exercise taken In
the course of strenuous forty-five MIN
utes between the coach lines For there
is always danger in athletic games; the
lungs may be filled too full of blood and
If they are at all weak then hemorrhage
may ensue
Not that l wish to say, as may be seen
by the opening paragraphs of this article,
one word in depreciation of athletic games
when practiced in moderation under right
conditions and by the right individuals.
But l wish to impress most strongly
upon my readers that haphazard exercises
can never usurp the place held by scien-
tifically directed exercises in the curing OF
III health The human body is sucn DEL
icately constructed organization in many
WAYS that all care must be taken not to
throw its machinery out of order by too
rash tampering with it's mechanism,-E
gene Sandow in New York World
w.
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