Gunnison Valley News | 1928-11-01 | Page 9 | Wrong Beliefs about Exercise and Heart

Wrong Beliefs About Exercise and Heart contrary produces a strengthening of the whole body and, normally, eveu a smaller heart-" The old belief that the heart In creased in size accordUig to the In creased amount of work It Is called upon to perforin Is a myth. Dr. Ma thias J. Seifert, Chicago, says In a study of the effect of exercise upon the heart, prepared for the Corgas Memorial Memo-rial Institute at Kansas City. If an athlete's heart increases In size It Is not because ot the exercise he has performed, but because there was something fundamentally wrong with It to begin with Doctor Seiferl declares. "It Is now found," he says, "thai the predisposition of the hcarl to en largement Is the result of infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, pneu monia. rheumatism and too strenuous exercise in youth, as well ns to physic traumas. "Exercise for pleasure causes no enlargement of the heart, but on the