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

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

Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

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.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

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