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Show Advice on Your Health By Morns Fishboin, Editor, Journal American Medical Association Dr. Henry A. Christian, formerly for-merly professor of medicine at Harvard university, is convinced that excessive exercise Is detrimental detri-mental to health. There la a difference of opinion, however,, as what constitutes excessive exercise. Since heart disease has become the leading cause of desth, doe-tors doe-tors recognize in exercise more Injury than benefit In cases of people who have Indulged too vigorously or for too long a time. This Is particularly true of men past 50 who can be found In their clubs still trying to plsy handball, hand-ball, tennis, volley ball or badminton bad-minton at a pace beyond their normal capabilities. Dr. Christian believes that many men past 50 Indulge In excessive ex-cessive exercise to reduce their weight Moat persona tend to add weight after 40, and It la generally known that overweight over-weight after middle age la a hazard haz-ard to health. Proper reduction of weight however, does not In- volve excessive activity. Reducing Reduc-ing should be gradual and should be accomplished by eating leas atarch. sugar and fat Exercise haa little effect on loss of weight Because exercise Is likely to increase the appetite, it Is difficult to reduce in association associ-ation with too much exercise. Dr. Christian especially warns those who exercised vigorously when young and who try to keep up this activity aa they grow older. old-er. The human body, after 50, begins to break down. It cannot undergo the stresses that It could tolerate In youth. The person past SO who tries to play 36 holes on a week end without keeping suitably in training la putting a burden on his heart his kidneys and hia other vital tissues. Our sense of fatigue is a reasonable rea-sonable guide to the amount of physical work in which we can Indulge. Any exercise la too vigorous If it Is followed by a restless night or if one Is still tired the next morning. |