DANGER IN SEDENTARY HABITS.
"There can be no doubt that a very large item in the list of diseaso-produc-ing factors of modern life is the everincreasing tendency to sedentary habits. Never was there a time when so small a proportion of the race was earning its brood by daily toil out-of-doors. Brain work displaces, muscular _ work year .by year. Men invent machines to 'save hard labour, but reap the inevitable result in many an insidious disease which owes its virulence and power to indoor conditions. Sedentary habits are especially productive of digestive disorders. Nature has decreed that the man who will not work with his hands shall not eat with any degree of digestive comfort. —Good Health.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7241, 29 July 1907, Page 4
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117DANGER IN SEDENTARY HABITS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7241, 29 July 1907, Page 4
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