Manti Messenger | 1926-05-28 | Page 2 | "Relaxed Play" Better than Any Formal Exercise for the Health

Relaxed Play a Better Than Any n y Formal Exercise Exercise Exercise Exer Exer- cise for the Health By DR CHARLES M M. WHARTON University of Pennsylvania Exercise as a panacea for all human ills is overrated The search for forthe forthe forthe the fountain of youth by exercise and diet has hOB been commercialized to a point of hysteria Reducing and starvation diets are assaults on health and selecting the early hours for exercise is choosing the worst time of day for such efforts Some one should cry a halt against the wild scramble for health by unnatural means Furthermore exercise is best when it is relaxed ed play when it is pleasure pleas pleas- ure and not work and when it comes as it were of itself and is not merely merely merely mere mere- ly self-imposed self as a stern duty Instead of leaping out of bed and exercising violently for twenty minutes try walking to work and entertaining yourself by noting new signs of changing weather from day to day Or take the formal ex exercises if you really enjoy them and their immediate effect but dont don't take them if you have ha to force yourself to them against all inclination and comfort The person who abandons formal exercise however should be sure to indulge in relaxed play often enough to get from ro it the tile good he needs That sort of play is something g too few ew Americans know anything about