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Keeping Fit (1914)
Book Facts... Keeping Fit
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Author: |
Orison
Swett Marden |
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Publisher: |
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company |
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Year
Published: |
1914 |
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Number
of Pages: |
301 |
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Number
of Chapters: |
Fifteen |
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Sub-Title: |
None |
Read on and learn more about this great classic:
Reviews Of: Keeping Fit
| "Most Americans need some of the advice contained in this book; they would enjoy better health and live longer if they read and heeded its admonitions."
- Evening Post (New York)
"I find the book full of interest and containing many practical suggestions of great value. It is a welcome addition to Dr. Marden’s books, all of which I regard as of the highest value in their effect upon the development of the individual."
- John L. Bates, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts
"What to eat, how food affects character, culinary crimes, and eating for efficiency – in short, what to do to maintain perfect health – are all discussed in a practical and sensible way."
- Omaha Bee |
Keeping Fit
Chapter Titles Include:
1. Keeping Fit
2. The Miracle Of Food
3. What To Eat, Or, The Science Of Nutrition
4. A Vegetable Or A Mixed Diet, Which?
5. Nature’s Own Food
6. How Food Affects Character
7. Culinary Crimes And Complex Living
8. Appetite And Joy In Eating
9. Overeating
10. Eating For Efficiency
11. Foods, Fads And Habits
12. Fatigue Poison
13. How Nature Mothers Us
14. What To Eat After Fifty
15. Masterfulness And The Great Out Of Doors
Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... Keeping Fit
| "TO KEEP FIT is to maintain perfect health; and perfect health depends upon a perfect balance of mind and body, unimpaired physical vigor and absolute inner harmony, and a calm, mental poise which nothing can disturb.
Every normal human being can, if he will, raise himself to this condition. He can live in such a simple yet scientific manner that he will not only have great disease-resisting power but will also be at the maximum of his creative ability.
When the body is in superb physical condition, it stimulates the mind and develops its maximum of the force that creates, that accomplishes. When the body is down the mind is down, all life’s standards are down, and the whole nature is demoralized. No one can be healthy or harmonious with a morbid or pessimistic outlook on life, for this produces physical and mental depression, the forerunner of ill health.
Not only disease catches him whose vitality, physical resiliency and resisting power are low, but mediocrity marks him also, because all his mental standards are down, too.
I criticized a carpenter working for me recently for using dull tools. He excused himself by saying that he had been too busy to sharpen them. He had been working for weeks with a dull saw, and with a plane which had notches in it, leaving ugly ridges on the boards he was planing. He had probably wasted more time in working with dull tools than would have been required to sharpen them several times, to say nothing of the inferior work he was turning out.
Many people go through life doing their work with dull tools just as this carpenter did. The edge is off their energy; their ambition is dull; their initiative lags; their enthusiasm is exhausted; their will-power is weak; their intelligence is blunted; all their powers are at the minimum instead of the maximum of their efficiency, because they have neglected their health or in some other way reduced their efficiency by failing to keep fit."
- Orison Swett Marden |
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