FASTING AND EXERCISE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 6

FASTING AND EXERCISE

ALDERMAN’S RECIPE FOR HEALTH (From a Special Correspondent) LONDON. sth October. The Mayor of Huddersfield, YorkYorkshire (Alderman Norman Crossley) has his own fitness campaign to offset the extra work the war has put on him. He goes out into the country every morning and runs, barefooted, in the dew: he says it is a health hint picked up from the Red Indians. He does a spell of weight-lifting before going back to Huddersfield to tackle his civic duties. And finally he fasts for seven days every autumn. “At this time of the year Nature make a complete change,” he said this week. “I do the same. By doing without food I enable my system to have a good rest, so that it can be cleansed and made ready to tackle the cold, rainy weather.” Seven years ago Alderman Crossley was a sick man. He nursed himself by fasting five weeks and then taking up physical culture. He lost several stones in weight, but says he believes he put years on his life. Among his plans to make his citizens as fit as himself are physical training and swimming. A pool at one of the town’s swimming baths is to be covered over so that the building can be used for mass physical instruction. Swimming lessons will be given in the other pool. Other halls in the town are to be reserved for similar physical training.