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Keeping Fit All the Way

CHAPTER I
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And yet if he goes away on a vacation he returns to find that nine-tenths of these troublesome things have been well taken care of during his absence.
Moreover, now that he has come back in a state of physical health and with nerves that are normal, he sees that these awful problems were simply exaggerated in his own mind by his overwrought physical condition.
Few people realize the effect of worry upon the digestion.
An experiment was once tried upon a cat, which was fed a dish of milk, stroked until it purred, and played with for half an hour.

The animal was then killed and the stomach examined; the milk was perfectly digested.

Another cat was taken and given a similar saucer of milk; then its fur was rubbed the wrong way and it was teased and annoyed as much as possible for half an hour.

Upon examining the stomach of the second cat it was found that not a step in the process of digestion had taken place.
AMERICANITIS It is wise to study the condition that we might almost call "Americanitis." The American youth, as shown in the Olympic games, is not only a match in speed, strength, and stamina for the youth of other nations, but when it comes to the individual specialist even then the American-trained boy is his superior.

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