Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1912 — Walking for Heart Ailment. [ARTICLE]

Walking for Heart Ailment.

The chief statistician of the health department of New York says overcoating, lack of exercise and the constant: use of automobiles have increased the deaths fronr heart disease 150 per cent, in the past 40 years. Between the ages of 35 and 45 the increase has been only 61 per cent., but between 55 and 65 the increase hae been 240 per cent. , The doctor says the automobile is, in part, to blame for this, because it keeps men frein, walking. He thinks walking is the best preventive of heart trouble. . “The legs and arms were made to use,” he says, and especially after a meal. The habit of most men who do not work to lie down after eating, or take a big chair and lounge. Resting makes them lazy. The stomach and the heart are closely related, and a full stomach strikes directly at tixa heart, especially if the person is running along the three-score line somewhere. So the lesson-is, walk; walk courageously; walk a great deal, and do a little deep breathing, while you are at it, and then, if heart trouble comes, you can’t help it; you have done your best to treat the heart kindly.—Ohio State Journal.