FRESH AIR FOR FITNESS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1930, Page 7

FRESH AIR FOR FITNESS.

Most people who work Indoors suffer from air starvation. Many offices are badly ventilated. Sedentary persons are more liable to infection from the germs of catarrh and bronchitis than those who work in the open air. Indoor air is charged with disease microbes, a»nd it has a depressing effect on all the bodily functions. Some persons suffer from sore throats after a few hours in a ei’owded room, and others have headaches.

Farm labourers, who breathe clean air for many hours a day are subject to chest complaint through sleeping in badly ventilated rooms, and many cases of consumption are noted among sea fishermen who sleep in tiny cabins. The townsman must take every possible opportunity for filling his lungs with pure air. Bedroom windows should be open at least a few inches during the night in winter and wide open in summer. Every hour spent in the open air is time well spent. Exercise that causes deep breathing counteracts the injurious effect of long hours in a close atmosphere. Week-end leisure should be spent in brisk walking, gardening, cycling, golf, and other outdoor recreations. City workers should walk to business, if possible, and when indoors they should ensure moving air in the workshop or office.