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December 28, 1854
The Maine Law Advocate
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
The elevated classes in England attain advanced ages due to outdoor exercise like horseback riding, despite indulgent habits. The piece advocates relaxing lifestyle to extend average human lifespan and prevent health breakdowns.
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Out-Door Exercise.
It is owing, mainly, to their delight in out-door exercise, that the elevated classes in England reach a patriarchal age, notwithstanding their habits of high living of late hours, of wine drinking, and many other health destroying agencies; the death of their generals, their lords, their earls and their dukes, are chronicled almost every week, at 70, 80 and 90 years; it is because they will be on horseback, the most elegant, rational and accomplished of all forms of mere exercise, both for sons and daughters.
But the whole credit of longevity to these classes, must not be given to their love of field sports; it must be divided with the other not less characteristic traits of an English nobleman—he will take the world easy; and could we, as a people, persuade ourselves to do the same habitually, it would add ten years to the average age of human life, and save many a broken heart, and broken fortune and broken constitution.—Hall's Journal of Health.
It is owing, mainly, to their delight in out-door exercise, that the elevated classes in England reach a patriarchal age, notwithstanding their habits of high living of late hours, of wine drinking, and many other health destroying agencies; the death of their generals, their lords, their earls and their dukes, are chronicled almost every week, at 70, 80 and 90 years; it is because they will be on horseback, the most elegant, rational and accomplished of all forms of mere exercise, both for sons and daughters.
But the whole credit of longevity to these classes, must not be given to their love of field sports; it must be divided with the other not less characteristic traits of an English nobleman—he will take the world easy; and could we, as a people, persuade ourselves to do the same habitually, it would add ten years to the average age of human life, and save many a broken heart, and broken fortune and broken constitution.—Hall's Journal of Health.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Outdoor Exercise
Longevity
English Nobility
Horseback Riding
Health Habits
Where did it happen?
England
Story Details
Location
England
Story Details
Elevated classes in England reach advanced ages mainly due to delight in outdoor exercise, especially horseback riding, despite habits of high living, late hours, and wine drinking; credit also to taking life easy, which could add years to average lifespan if adopted widely.