Evening star., 1922-03-17
PERSONAL
HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. BRADY.
Every Little, Movement.

| my system" OF exercise Tor the DeGs
| ter oxygenation Of the cells OF the
culated to bring into action the mus.
| cles which suffer most by reason of
sedentary life. There are probably
other groups of exercises taken with
cut apparatus that will do just las
much good as the symphony. sAt the
same time there are many systems Of
exercise that are scarcely worth
while. 1t requires about fifteen min.
utes to do the exercises included in
the symphony. and some three min
utes more to do the two added move
| ments which I shall describe in due
course. consider this medicine
! cheap at the price Of twenty mfnutes
a day-it Is one Of very few medi-
cines 1 take on my own judguent
Should any of my readers care for
! these exercises just write and ash for
| the symphony and inclose stamped, ad-
dressed>envelcpe.
Most people would much rather read
about taking exercise than takest the
exercise. That is why 1 am telling
about it here-I want to please as
truth. I'd rather read about 1t or some
thing else than take exercise myself.
I. hate to take exercise, yet take it
with great faith in 1t as Health
medicine. I hate to take any medi-
.cineS yet will take any medicine q
4
be some kind of medicine l have con-
demned. I think too much of my
health to call in q doctor and then
fall to follow his instructions to the
letter-but / know I think more of
health than a great many do. Some
er they should take this or that medi-
cine their own doctors have pre-
scribed or whether they should un-
dergo this or that treatment their
own doctors have advised. So know
some people have a very small regard
for health. The most contemptuous
opinion of health I ever heard u was
that of a man who employed q physi-
sian and permitted the physician to
attend him regularly, yet insisted that
he had no faith in the doctor or his
treatment. don't believe that record
has been beaten in human life, though
the sick mule goes the man one bet
ter-the mule had no faith whatever
in the veterinarian and wouldn't even
call him in. yet the veterinarian cured
him. !.
A good many men and women who
have hs attainsa the age Of property
age when the intoxication of succeeds
goes to the head and makes the little
ego sweN, loudly maintain that the
notion Of taking daily exercise 10 all
bosh and that they enjoy excellent
uc6lLuy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IuCy u0N0G
think Of taking exercise Of any kind
If they can avoid 1t. Well, there are
all kinds Of theories or conceptions
of health. That which the average
person understands as health is only
20 per cent grade. have yet to
examine q 90 per cent specimen that
keeps in the 80 per cent class with-
out taking daily exercise. Idon't be-
lieve I shall ever find such a speci-t
men. If such there be, should glad
ly pay for a chance to examine him.
BY spirometry. method OF preci-
sion for measuring rhe vital capacity
(the greatest amount Of air one can
egt possible inspiration) it has been
found that regular daily physical ex-
ercise increases the vital capacity up
| to 30 per cent above the average Of
so-called healthy persons, and in
cases Of heart disease or lung dis
ease the vital capacity is decreased
about 30 per cent. below the normal.
Daily exercise, then, brings health
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