HOW MUSSOLINI KEEPS FIT
HARD WORK AND PHYSICAL EXERCISE ROME, March 4. “I have transformed my organism into an engine, constantly supervised and controlled, which runs with absolute regularity,” said Signor Mussolini in replying to a journalist who ask id for the secret of his vitality and fitness. Il Duce, who is nearly 55 years of age, has not had a day’s illness since 1925, and works an average of from 12 to 14 hours a day. Signor Mussolini disclosed that _he does not smoke, drinks a little wine, eats simple country dishes, and devotes from 30 to 40 minutes a day to physical exercises* The dictator sleeps from seven to eight hours each night, reads 70 books a year, and fasts for 24 hours on the first symptoms of indisposition.
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Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 7
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