Show Dr Fishbein's Fishbein s Health Talks By Dy DR MORRIS FISHBEIN I dont don't believe it is necessary to remind you how Important it is to have real physical education to be bc healthful and get the most work and pleasure out of your body By physical education I mean not only calisthenics and muscular exercise exercise exer exer- cise else but also instructions in the ways of health and indeed everything that relates to the body As I 1 have mentioned many times previously a hi a-hi high h percentage of our children in the public schools suffer from defects that are easily correctable correctable correct correct- able such as malnutrition bad teeth infected tonsils and adenoids defective vision and hearing and oc occasionally occasionally oc- oc c heart disease and tuber tuber- If It you can uncover these diseases early and take all aU possible proper steps toward correcting them or overcoming them your children should benefit enormously a 0 e A physician in the Pittsburgh public pub pub- lic lie schools observed the 14 and 15 year-old year boys and girls over a ten ten- year period from 1923 to 1934 and md found that their average weight increased increased in in- creased five tivo pounds and 13 ounces and their average crace height increased two thirds of an inch This ma may be betaken betaken taken as a general effect of the application application application cation of new knowledge regarding health and physical education While the middle-aged middle person of today breaks down because of overwork overwork overwork over over- work of ot the heart henrt kidneys and circulation circulation cir dr of the blood this Pittsburgh physician believes that the present generation when grown will suffer less from flom such uch breakdowns because of ot better preparation through the means of modern health education 0 Qi As a result of at proper attention to correctable defects through the teaching of good hygienic habits an anby and by use of suitably organized physical training the adolescent of today will develop strong musculature coordination coordination coordination nation of movements and a better balanced nervous mechanism From what we know of the causes of ot breakdown wn in middle age the cor car of oC abscessed teeth the re removal re- re moval of at diseased tonsils and the building of greater grenter resistance to Infection infection in In- must influence favorably the incidence o of generative e diseases |