Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-14
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY


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CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
The principal of the conservation OF
energy is universal throughout nature
By living in harmony with this prin-
ciple, man may prolong his life period
to a hundred years, and enjoy the use
of his faculties, practically un1m-
paired, until the close.
But how shall we do this? How
shall we conserve bodily energy so that
the physical machine may run smooth
ly and evenly? By observing the laws
which govern other machines. Any
piece of mechanism, run to excess,
will soon wear out. If this is true
of iron and steel, how much more so
of the delicately organized, wonderfully
adapted physical machine.
The craze for exercise is pulling
down racial longevity, and will make
the next generation distorted, deformed
in shape, thin, dyyspeptic and energy
less, deficient in mental and moral
power. It's women will be ungainly
character.
Let us look at the facts. Who are
the men who live the longest? Clergy
men, authors, scientists, lawyers-men
who take very little exercise. On the
other hand, says the Medical Brief,
farmers, who take much exercise, fol-
lowing the plough, the sportsmen who
hunt, fish, play golf, ETC., are short
lived.
1t is the air which benefits. Enough
exercise to put all the muscles into
play, start the blood moving and eX-
pand the lungs is good.
1t stimulates the assimilation OF
oxygen and the eliminating organs
But half mile out and a half mile
back is a sufficient constitutional for
any one 1t is the regularity of eX-
ercise which tells, not the amount.
No one should experience a feeling
of WEAKNESS after exercise. If he
does he is wasting his energy and
doing himself harm. He needs that
energy for digestion, for thinking, etc.
The unnecessary breaking down of
tissue, during heavy exercise, makes
a man feVerish causes toXemia, heart
and kidney strain.
Athletes VIGOROUSLY die early. They
may be models of muscular manhood,
but their vital organs are prematurely
worn out. On the other han, we are
constantly reading of some old man or
woman dying in the county poor
house who has passed the century
mark several years. Many of us have
grandmothers who have reached the
nineties hale and hearty, yet who took
no exercise the last twenty years of
their lives.
Animals do not force themselves
painfully, through immense efforts of
will, to undergo fatiguing exertions'
They stretch and yawn few times
a day and forage a little, yet they
keep in excellent condition because al
ways in the air.
It is time for us to make stand
against this athletic craze. The swing
ing of ponderous clubs and dumb bells,
rowing heavy machines, pulling UP
weights, walking fifteen or twenty
miles a day. chasing a golf ball, etc.,
is needless and injurious to any one
Take moderate exercise, but be careful
to guard against fatigue. Such exer-
else is a very different thing from the
severe and senseless efforts required
by teachers of gymnastics and exer-
else fiends.
If people would live long and healthy
they should take their exercise under
the advice of a common sense phy-
sician, not at the instance OF gym
nasts and friends.
The wrenching of muscles, tendons
ligaments, joints, nerves and blood
vessels are giving all kinds of puzzline
pathological conditions, dislocated Wis
cera, ETC., traceable to over exercise
il we only knew where to look for it
Rupture is often caused by an insane
effort to take exercises prescribed by
some gymnast.