Sudden death and sport--preventable or inevitable.

نویسنده

  • D Tunstall Pedoe
چکیده

Physical exertion is not now an essential part of many people's working existence and because hard physical labour was the lot of the "labouring classes" from which many people have tried to escape by getting more genteel occupations, the correlates of exertion, heavy breathing and sweating are considered "not nice" and associated with the lower orders. A gentleman no less than a lady does not perspire. A lady makes sure that she "glows" rather than sweats by spraying on a suitable poison to paralyse her sweat glands. The exercise boom is overturning this picture of genteel and leisurely leisure and the gentlemen and ladies (and now increasing numbers of the lower social classes) are now seen sweating and panting in profusion.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • British journal of sports medicine

دوره 18 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1984