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Many people neglect physical exercise in spite of all that is said
and written concerning its importance. Some grow obese because
the system is clogged. Others become thin and feeble because their
strength is exhausted in disposing of an excess of food. The liver is
burdened in its effort to cleanse the blood of impurities, and illness
is the result.
Those whose habits are sedentary should, when the weather per-
mits, exercise in the open air every day, summer or winter. Walking
is preferable to riding or driving, for it brings more of the muscles
into exercise. The lungs are forced into healthy action, since it is
impossible to walk briskly without inflating them.
Such exercise would in many cases do more than medicine to
improve one’s health. Physicians often advise their patients to take
an ocean voyage, go to some mineral spring, or visit some place
with a different climate, when in most cases if the sick would eat
temperately and take cheerful, healthful exercise, they would recover
health. Plus, they would save time and money.
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