A Guide to Health/Part 1/Chapter 7 |←How much and how many times
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59-64| Exercise is as much of a vital necessity for man as air,
water and food, in the sense that no man who does not take
exercise regularly, can be perfectly healthy. By "exercise" we
do not mean merely walking, or games like hockey, football, and
cricket; we include under the term all physical and mental
activity. Exercise, even as food, is as essential to the mind as
to the body. The mind is much weakened by want of exercise as
the body, and a feeble mind is, indeed, a form of disease. An
athlete, for instance, who is an expert in wrestling, cannot be
regarded as a really healthy man, unless his mind is equally
efficient. As already explained, "a sound mind in a sound body"
alone constitutes true health. Which, then, are those exercises
which keep the body and the mind equally efficient? Indeed,
Nature has so arranged it that we can be engaged in physical as
well as mental work at th