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Show HEALTH ARTIE MiGOVERN Take Care of Your Body Most of us are apt to think of our bodies as though each separate organ carried on its work entirely independent of all the other organs. or-gans. We associate the lungs with breathing, the heart with pumping blood through veins and arteries, the stomach with the digestion of food, and so on. Actually, all parts of the human mechanism, the internal in-ternal organs, the muscles, bones and nerves, are so dependent upon each other that anything affecting affect-ing one is communicated to the whole. Abuse your stomach and the intestines, liver, kidneys yes, even the heart are made to suffer. You cannot breathe impure and confine the damage solely to the lungs. Strain the muscles of the back with some violent effort and you place an equal strain on various var-ious other musicles. It is easy, therefore, to see why everything we do to maintain normal nor-mal health must be done for the entire system. When we exercise, it is not for development of exterior exter-ior muscles, but for efficient functioning func-tioning of the internal working parts. When we rest, it is to restore re-store nervous as well as physical energy. When we eat, we select foods to replace worn-out tissue, build bone, blood and muscles; not merely to satisfy the appetite. So it goes with every bodily function. Keeping fit is the art of keeping all the members of the body working work-ing smoothly. Sometimes it involves in-volves complete reformation in liv- ing habits. More frequently, it is only one or two failings that must be conquered. Faulty diet, improper impro-per posture, too little exercise, insufficient in-sufficient fresh air, irregularity, over-indulgence of any sort all these affect the system as a unit, and not as we may think, in any one particular spot. |