There is still another method which has some show of reason in it, although, after all, it does not compare with the wiser, saner course.

A man or woman is persuaded that if he or she will only give up some particularly attractive self-indulgence the result will be increased health and vigor.

For instance, there is a common belief that tea or coffee is the cause of many ills.

Perhaps this is true, but the giving up of tea or coffee will never cure the ills that come from lack of exercise, loss of fresh air, over-eating, and over-indulgence.

The mere fact that a person is giving up something that he likes does not make him immune to the penalties which he incurs day after day by other offenses against the laws of Nature.
CONSERVING THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH Rear-Admiral Carey T.Grayson, personal physician and health director to President Wilson, says: "You may make the statement, in so many words, that physical exercise has been the means of making a normal, physically perfect man of the President.