Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-10-29 | Page 7 | Automobile is Aid to Health

AUTOMOBILE IS AID TO HEALTH. Here is the latest prescription for physical exercise: Take one automobile fill it with gae and take a long, fast ride every day. That motoring is one of the flnesl forms oi exercise for the average man and woman of today is a somewhat j Startling hypothesis. Most persons do not consider the driving of a molor car in the lifehi of exercise at all. But now the theory of the automobile- as a healthful form of exercise is being advanced by physic ians It is the muscles of the arui, to-gcther to-gcther with those of the chett and abdomen, ab-domen, that pre-eminently and habitually ha-bitually suffer Upre n. found undevel-opment undevel-opment and flabbiness And it is pre-j elsely here that the steering wheel of the automobile may come to the rescue. The handling of Hie steering wheel! and the operation of the gear shifts and biake levers give v. mild but persistent per-sistent action which Involves practically practi-cally all the muscles of the arms, chest and ibdomen. By driving a car 40 or 50 miles over average American roads the arms and torso receh 8 a course of purposeful calisthenics that strengthen the muscles, arteries, heart digestive apparatus and nervous system. sys-tem. Combine this with the fact that tho f motorist has been out in the open air, and you have a form of medicine that it hard to equal. no