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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.

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The Chairborne Era

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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

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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

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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,

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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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