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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.
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The Chairborne Era
D
O you think you Even Army cadets at could remain phy Sandhurst spond 9 hours Rically if you of each day sitting in lec- were condemned to
ture rooms, in the canteen spend almost
All your waking time sitting in
or on their beds, say wheel chair?
investigators,
J
No? Yet the odds are that is exactly what are doing of your own free will, except that your chair
has no wheels on it.
the
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CHAPMAN PINCHER
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that even
the and
The Chairborne Era has so positive that they Are in showing up in a big way in Housewives too, in spite overwhelmed you
their surgeries in the form of their chores and shop sidiously
complaints and ping, pass the greater part ploughman alts at work of minor of each day--sevon to eight watches TV at night,
even major "disorders of hours in the case of those
civiliantion." children-sitting with no down.
Surveys are consistently showing that most men and women sit for the greater part of the eight hours they work.
They Hit
the WAY home in a bus, train or vår.
They sit for most of their leisure—about five hours a in duy-in the pictures, the pub, watching TV Just dozing.
DISORDERS
There is no escaping the fact that the human being who is designed by nature to lend an active life has gradually become a seden- iary creature.
Now, muscles make up about half of the human
Army
records, suggest. that emotional instability and other forms of "nerves" are so much commoner In people who are flabby and Inactive that exercise must exert a soothing effect on the nervous system.
no
There seems to be doubt that much and possi- bly most of the laskitude
replaced by
and general “off-colour" "second wind" in middle feeling which is so common life. About 80 percent of is directly due to inck, of
for exercise. body and the energy pro patients being treated cesses going on inside them low backache were entirely
So many people are com- dominate the entire body free from organie disease
plaining of this run-down chemistry. So it would be but failed to puss simple feeling that doctors are surprising if this increas- tests for muscle
strength beginning to speak of "aub- ing inactivity of the museu- and flexibility. When put strength" patients, lar system did not produce un corrective exercises they Home unnatural effects,
quickly lost their pain and Doctors
claiming their general Are
health im- that these effects are How provedl.
LEADING ATHLETE-DOCTOR LISTS▪
THE FIVE BEST ANTI-CHAIRBORNE' EXERCISES
DR. THOMAS CURETON, a 1.5. scientist, an the world's leading authority on how to step up athletle performance by improving physleal fitness. After analysing" Roger Bannister in
ONE: Mans trunk muscies
BE
get
the
M
thorough flexing during this easy leg - ralsing EXERCISE door 01
the
TWO: From the viltreg position with both legs off the four The legs are alternately drawn up towards the che
เป Chrast Straight
forward
1952, he correctly predicted that the young British runner and the physical capacity to run
mile in less than four minutes.
THREE: Flutter kieki with the legs done as quickly as possible when lying on the stomach, as above, and on the back. They develop lower-back, waist, and stomach muscles,
FOUR: Rhythmic bending frpm ta sitting position on the exercises the aften-neglected
floor
abdominal muscles. Should be done twiee
dally for five minutes, says Dr. Curetan.
FIVE: The step test for endurance building. It consists of stepping on chair or bench, using each leg alter nately. Work up to 30 steps a minute for five minutes. Practise it once or twice a day.
DEFICIENCY
These are not positively ill, but have high pulse rate, élevated blood pres. sure, low reserves against and invariably- stress, posur muscle strength Through lack of exercise.
"Exercise deficiency" is far, more prevalent and im- portant than vitumin de. Belency doctors claim,
Medical Research Counell worker Dr Jeremy Morris suspects that lack of exe" else is partly responsible
for such major civilisation disorders ILM duodenal uicers. diabetes. liver trouble, heart attacks, and even appendicitis.
THE HEART
Ile believes that physical activity may protect the heart and lungs as well as improve the muscles,
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New Facts Drive Home The Lesson: If You Want
To Be Fit,
Get Up And Go!'
His experiments
on animals overweight. This is illustrated and human beings have estab- by the way so
many soldiers lished three points:- The muscles
rapidly run to fal as soon of those who chairborne remain"
gradually
1. Exercise does not increase they return to a chairborne life
In "civvy HİYENOS.** Kot weaker through being
the appetite to such an extent fat and
shat It Induces the body to pul other
As a result of all
This "boliast."
on weight as fast as Those who keep in
takes evidence, exercise Is 'toporing aft exercise
bock Into faypur as the only retain regular muscle strength which tones up
2. Though a brisk walk may treatment to counter the in- shed only about us of Chairborne Era. the entire system.
Detivity complaints of the fat a day this tols up to about 21 stone in a year, or, to put I another way. 30 minutes moderate exprelse is equivalent to denying yourself
n helping of apple pie with a lump of ice-cream on top.
"We are convinced that the resulls of our researches indi- cate a practient method for the prevention of growing old- physical exerese, murele work.
an doctors, fed and sport," report the Hungar- by Professor E. Bajusz.
Exercise also helps to defer aging processes by keeping the
The belief body lean. exercise in of little value in slimming and that dieting is the only practical procedure han been discredited
the by searches of De Jean Mayer.
that
ተ-
3. The physically active man runs less clak of getting Tat through over-eating because, if he puts on weight, he uses up inore energy in about, and the extra weight therefore tends to disappear.
The sedentary man does not have the advantage of this automatic brake 01 becoming
There is no need for anything over-strenuous." Walking instead of catching the bus, climbing of taking the stairs instead ifft, dancing occasionally Instead of watching TV, and more gar¬ dening will work wonders if you keep them up-may doctors.
the
D
A few minutes a day on the exercises shown below moving li
they are recommended by Jepding U.S. scientist, Dr Cure- ton-will provide a fanle
that will not even coat you a shilling on the bottle.
WOMAN KEPT ALIVE FOR
A
3 DAYS BY MACHINE
the
doctors report in Lancet.
Four days ter her heart failed again and once more the machine revived her,
ROBOT machine which the can. automatically re- suscitate a patient whose heart has stopped beating has ixen built #t St George's Hospital, London.
It starts bombarding the heart with electric currents to shock it back into action immediately The patient's pulse stops. AL the same time it souḍig storm to summon the doctor,
an
She suffered a further heart utlock later when this machine was not svallsbian-and died.
There is even evidence that regular exercise helps
A 68-year-old woman whos to stave off the effects of heart had failed was kept alive increasing age.
for the days by means of the Hungarian doctors who maching. Eléctric leatis tared to enfried out muscle
a1 mea- her chest transmultie; the shocks surementa
5,000 men to her heart whenever her pul
on
Her heart recovered Its
and women believe that stopped, people who regularly exer- cise their museles get
-
mai beat and the woman became "quite well and comfortable,"
IT'S CHEAP
The
now device applies the shocks to the chast which' con- ducts them to the heart so that no surgery is needed and vital
minutes aro suved,
The machine, which is a mass of miniature electronic parts in ú box no bigger than a large loaf, was devised by Dr Aubrey Leatham, a heart specialist, Dr Poter Cod, and Mr Johus Davies, an electronics expert,
ON
As it costs only a few pounds doctors faresco the day whep all hospital patients in danger of suffering a heart attack will Powered by batteries have a machine by the bedside, the mains it can deliver 40-80
Electric mock machines for heart shocks a minute, use in heart attacks are in use many hpitals. But they have to be applied directly to the heart, which means a severe operation.
Though the St. George's doc. tots have only pochtly begun to use the machine they have sued a rush report on it to that other hospitals can fill
It is often impossible to do this in time to save dito patieht, 74
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