PHYSICAL FITNESS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4220, 6 December 1939, Page 10

PHYSICAL FITNESS

WHO IS A HEALTHY PERSON; “In speaking of physical fitness it is well to understand what we are trying to achieve. It is not the production of a race of supermen,, big limbed and muscle-bound, nor even the production of a perfect human specimen, but the general improvement of racial health. Some people look upon health in terms of muscle some in terms of height and weight, others in freedom from pain and sickness but health is not a negative thing—no mere absence of any one thing will give health. All of us, medical as well as lay persons, are apt to glide unconsciously into the fallacy of assuming that health is the absence of disease; yet one of its most notable characteristics is its positiveness; it is the dynamic factor in life. The healthy person has a bi-acing outlook, his mind is happy and his presence is a joy to those about him. He thinks quickly, moves briskly and acts promptly because his circulation is free from toxins and poisons which hamper the activity of the brain and muscles.” —Dr. R. CoveSmith, former captain of the English Rugby football team.