China s 1 300 Year Old Stay Young Secret

# China s 1 300 Year Old Stay Young Secret

The average American gets his
only exercise walking from his
house to his car. As soon as he
gets in his car, the automatic
transmission, power brakes, and
power steering take over for •
him. In many cases he even has
a remote control gadget that
opens his garage door where he
keeps his riding power lawn
mower. In the meantime his wife
is in the kitchen with her electric
mixer, electric can opener, garbage disposal, and self cleaning
oven.
seems like machines
do
everything for us lucky Americans anymore. Is it any wonder
then that almost 80 per cent of
Americans are overweight? Did
you know that the United States
is ranked 1lth in the world for
life expectancy of women and
18th for men? Over 165,000
Americans die prematurely each
year from heart disease.
It's a shame that such i rich
and wonderful country like ours
is losing it's health because of
it's own richness. in an age
where we are now worried so
much about the ecology of our
land, I think it's about time we
worried more about the wasting
of our bodies.
If you are an average American, chances are that you are
well aware of the problem, and
you are seriously willing 1o do
something about it. The only
trouble is, you've dieted ump.
icen times, but gained
back
every pound you lost after you
quit dieting. And who the heck
wants lo be on a diet for the
rest of his life, anyway. You've
probably tried exercising too, but

At last! China reveals
her 1,300 year old stay-young
health secret. MORE AMAZING THAN ACUPUNCTURE? by George Culbertson © Copyright 1974 by Good News Publishing Co. gave it up before it had a chance
finally, is an exercise that is easy
to do any good. After all, most
enough for both young and old
exercises are hard and strenuous,
to do, but beneficial enough to
and most Americans really don't
help control your weight. TAI
have the time to do them. The
CHI has been enthusiastically en-
fact is that we are in danger of
becoming a nation of weak, fat
dorsed in magazines like News-
week, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and
slobs. Harpers Bazour. So where is the solution to our
problem? Must we give up the
Helping to control your weight
is only one of TAI CHI's benefits. good rhings of life we have
Here are some others:
struggled so hard for? Do we have
• It tones all of the muscles of
to trade in our air conditioned
the body, giving you a slim. cars for bicycles, and our rich
mer and younger looking
foods for bland diets? The answer is NO! Believe it
or not, there is a way we can
have our cake and eat it, too! There is a way to be fit and trim
without working for it! Strangely enough the answer
to the problem isn't new. It is
over 1300 years old. The Taoist
monks of ancient China had a
worse problem than we do. They
were very intelligent men who
sat and meditated continuously
without hardly moving at all.

Although
meditation
helped improve their minds, they
realized that their bodies were
suffering for it. As a result these
thinking men developed a series
of movements that exercised

• It increases your blood cir.
culation, giving you a less
tired or nervous feeling.
• Il stimulates better breeth-
ing, supplying more oxygen
to your body tissues. (It
takes oxygen lo burn up
fut.)
• TAI CHI strengthens the
muscles of your heart with-
out straining them. (This
may give you a much better
chance against heart disease)
• TAI CHI has a relaxing effect, almost like o mild tranquilizer, letting you sleep
better at night and feel ber-
fer in the morning.
• It strengthens the lower back
muscles. (weak back muscles
are a major cause of back.
every muscle of the entire body
in just a few minutes without
strain, These exercises were called
TAI CHI. They could be done
anywhere anytime in just a few
minutes without working up a
sweat. It was the answer to their
problem, and it is also the answer
for us easy living Americans.
Doctors and physical educators
have been extremely excited
about TAI CHI since it arrived
here in the United States. Here,