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Show and give yourself time to adjust ad-just to the work. This is important im-portant when you are overweight. over-weight. Don't drag around extra ex-tra pounds causing the heart to work harder. Thoughtful planning and good organization will get the job done with much less effect. ef-fect. A slow steady rate of work, with short rest periods taken in the shade, will get the job done without doing you in. When your work makes you short of breath or causes chest pain, either you are working, too fast or the work is too hard for you. Report to your doctor whenever a job you are accostomed to doing easily seems difficult or causes discomfort. Remember worries, fears and tensions will preventTT' relaxing during rest r': These emotional stress, an extra burden on the h You will find more preformation pr-eformation in the booklet , Safe Work Load for Fa ' ' with Heart Disease." ' booklet is available fr ' writing the Utah Hear'' so.ciation, 250 E. iS ' Salt Lake City, Utah ' The finest words in the v. are only vain sounds if , cannot understand them ! Anatole Fra. Short words are best the old words when short best of all. ai WinstonChu, rPr Ticket 7fps . I For Advlci About Your Heart I Set Your Doctor For . IX Information Ask Your Hrt Association (This is one of a series of health columns about your Heart prepared by the Utah Heart Assn. and published by this newspaper as .a public service. Work and moderate exercise are good for almost everyone, including people" with heart disease. But it is important not to overload your equipment. equip-ment. This applies to the farmer farm-er as well as farm machinery, according to the Utah Heart Association. Your physical capacities depends de-pends on many things age, health and body build, for example. ex-ample. Your capacity to work is also affected by such factors fac-tors as exercise, weather and your state of mind. In the summer, you are more likely to overload your heart; the chores you may do easily in cooler weather put more stress on your heart when the temperature goes up. This is because the heart must supply more blood to the skin to cool the body while it is also supplying blood to the working work-ing muscles. The following pointers worked work-ed out by research scientists to help the farmer with heart disease can wisely be applied to your own outdoor work, whether or not you have heart trouble. Whenever you can, stay in the shade; avoid the direct summer sun. A sun shade on the tractor will help reduce the stress. Start on a new job slowly |