Run to Health [antikvár]

IntroductionIt has been said that running changes everything v^^e can measure about the body. During my first forty years of running, and enough miles to circle the globe a couple of times, I have naturally wondered v^hat has been going on in my body; and mind too, perhaps. For many years my job as medical scientist concerned with the prevention of disease has made me think particularly about the place of running in maintenance of health. So I coUected information and conducted research myself. My personal conclusion is that running brings with it a remarkable collection of health advantages. Perhaps the spread of similar convictions partly accounts for the growing popularity of running in recent years.And is this just another craze, soon to pass into history? If we look at man we see an animal with powerful legs, clearly designed to run. We see an animal that has effectively used those legs, over the centuries, over the evolutionary ages . . . until some sixty years ago, when everyone cHmbed aboard the automobile and running became rather quaint, except for a few young athletes. So my belief is that the "craze" has been one oL inactivity, making the running revolution an overdue return to biological sanity by the enlightened vanguard.So I have ventured, recklessly perhaps, to set down my thoughts and findings and to launch the result. Run to Health, upon the recently charted, but increasingly crowded waters of the written running word.