Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family . a re-duction in weight, and again, adding to theweight in the anaemic and poorly nourished bystimulating the digestion and assimilation. I am for the moment taking the liberty ofconsidering the flat-chested woman and thewoman whose body is out of proportion on ac-count of adipose tissue, and while in this posi-tion I shall try to tell each of them how to bringher body to a normal, healthy condition. Activity What would you think of a starving womanrefusing to eat substantial food that has beenplaced before her? If after read
Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family . a re-duction in weight, and again, adding to theweight in the anaemic and poorly nourished bystimulating the digestion and assimilation. I am for the moment taking the liberty ofconsidering the flat-chested woman and thewoman whose body is out of proportion on ac-count of adipose tissue, and while in this posi-tion I shall try to tell each of them how to bringher body to a normal, healthy condition. Activity What would you think of a starving womanrefusing to eat substantial food that has beenplaced before her? If after reading this articleyou refuse to observe the hints and fail to givethe exercises an adequate trial because it meanshard work and sacrifice, then you place yourselfin exactly the same position as the starvingperson who refused to eat. There is absolutelyno reason why a woman should go through lifewith a half-starved, undeveloped muscular or-ganism when through eight minutes spent dailyin exercise she may be pulsating in vigoroushealth. Nor should another be constantly. 42 Keeping Physically Fit carrying from fifty pounds up of excessive fatwhen by rational eating and exercising she canreduce it to normal. For a woman to know herduty regarding her physical welfare and toneglect its performance is criminal negligence,not alone to herself, but to her it means hard work to get health, andjust as hard to keep it. Nothing in the worldthat possesses any value can be had free. Airis free, but even it must be breathed, and thedeeper and more vigorously it is breathed themore good it does one. ^Nature knows nopause, said Goethe, ^^and attaches a curseupon all inaction. Still water becomes stag-nant, while running water purifies itself. Sloth,like rust, consumes faster than labor bicycle falls the moment it stops, and phys-ical exercise and mental activity keep many alife from falling. The ship at the wharf rotsfaster than one at sea. Frogs do not croak inrunni
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