CHAPTER XXI. 

 EXERCISE AND BATHING. 



How Exercise is Beneficial. Exercise stimulates the 

 cells to activity and renews the lymph around the cells 

 both by quickening the blood flow and by pressure on the 

 lymph tubes. The glands of excretion are set to work 

 more actively, and the more rapid blood stream brings 

 away the material to be thrown out. 



Exercise for General Health. Exercise is not merely 

 for the muscles. It quickens the action of the whole body 

 by increasing cell activity. It helps clean out the system 

 and clear the brain as well. It is not so much strength as 

 health that we neecl. The ability to do our daily work, to 

 do it with comfort and without any feeling of strained 

 effort, is what we need. 



Exercise prolongs Life. Many men would live longer, 

 feel better, and do greater good in the world, if they took 

 regular and systematic exercise. It is a shortsighted 

 policy to say, "I cannot afford the time." Not to take 

 time for exercise is to mortgage one's future. "He who 

 does not take time for exercise will have to take time for 

 illness." The latter half of every person's life Bought in 

 many respects to be by far the most productive of good. 

 But many cut off this half, or render it less useful through 

 breaking down in health as a result of violating the laws 

 of health. 



