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...classification) from a dozen or more professions and trades. He has put more than 500 of them through a physical build-up course, and retested them at the end of it for signs of improved breathing, heart action, muscular flexibility, strength, hardness, endurance. His conclusion: cardio-vascular ailments among the middle-aged would be negligible if such people would just exercise more, eat right...
...heart; 2) a diet of more green and yellow vegetables, no excess fats, starches or sugars, and "not too much of anything." Dr. Cureton stresses the fact that this is not a reducing regimen, nor is it for sick men. The purpose is to tone up the cardio-vascular system, strengthen the heart, improve the digestion, clear the mind. For busy men who say they have no time for such diversions, Dr. Cureton cites the case of a male patient whose tests indicated a life expectancy of six years. After six months...
...weeks, 47 men, who had failed the cardio-vascular physical efficiency, or "step," test in June, have advanced their scores to an average of 25 points per man and all but two have definitely passed the test, Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, announced yesterday...
...California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears. "I'll be all right," wept Tom Mooney. "It's the shock, coming back here?back to San Francisco where it all happened...