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Show Athletics and H.sltb. There is a popular delusion that an athlete must necessarily be a healthy man, by reason of his athleticism, but as a matter of fact, muscular development develop-ment is not an affair of the constitution; constitu-tion; it is an accident, pure and simple. sim-ple. Strong limbs are frequently to be found associated with a weak heart.and many a strong man dies of consumption. consump-tion. If health may be defined as a capacity for hanging on to life, then in many cases the weakest are the healthiest. health-iest. If such a definition is accurate, women are healthier than men, their average length of days being greater. It is doubtful, however, if centenarians, centenari-ans, merely because they are centenarians, centena-rians, are absolutely the healthiest. It is as hard to say what life is as to say what health is, and the way in which unhealthy people are tenacious of life is not surprising. |