MUSSOLINI'S HEALTH
OF VITALITY EXERCISE AND SIMPLE LIFE EOME, March 4 "I have transformed my organism into an engine, constantly supervised and controlled, which runs with absolute regularity," said Signor Mussolini to-day, in reply to a journalist who had asked him the secret of his vitality and fitness. II Duce is approaching the age of 55 but has not had a day's illness since 1925. Ho works an average of 12 to 14 hours a day. Signor Mussolini disclosed that he docs not smoke, drinks little wine, eats simple country dishes, devotes 30 to 40 minutes a day to physical exercises, sleeps seven or eight hours each night, reads 70 books in a year, and fasts for 24 hours on the first symptons of indisposition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 15
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