Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.