VARIATIONS IN BODILY STRENGTH.
At what hour of the day, asks "Health Culture," is a man at his strongest and so fitted to do hard work with the least weariness? The question is a strange one, and probably the answer occurring at once to most people will be, "When he gets up irt the morning." This is by no means the case; on the contrary, according to the experiments of" Dr. Buch with the dynamometer, a man is precisely at his weakest when he turns out of bed. - Our muscle force is greatly increased by breakfast, but it attains to its hignest point after the midday meal. It then sinks for a few hours, rising again toward evening, but steadily declines from night to morning. The two chief foes Jof muscular force, according to Dr. Buch, are overwork and idleness. Sweating at work deteriorates the muscles.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 92, 19 April 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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