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All these setting-up exercises should be slowly stretched through, quite
after the mumer of a contented cat before a fires Plenty of stretching keeps the
spine supple and the body youthful.

If nothing else could be said to players about eating this should suffices
Mat Slowly at mealtimes and eat nothing betwen meals. llow rapidly a player eats is
just as important as what ho eats.

The three Bts = Boiled, Broiled, and Baked Foods. oiled, broiled, and.
baled meats should constitute good dietetic fundenentals for a training menus there
should be no fried foods. ‘The players should have their interests in body metabolis
oni the relative value of fate, proteins, ant carbohydrates vhetted to the point
that they will thoroughly understand about tissue-building foods. If meats are eaten
before gomes, the meal should be served three hours previouslys a

Orangess This fruit is a pet hobby of the author for the training diet of
all athletes. Through his long years of coaching, so important has the writer con-
sidered the use of oranges for conditioning players that he has never ceased to suggest
a team orenge fund to every “pep" organization with which he has cane inte contact
The sumwtotal results of this athletic orunge-eating hobly have been without exeption
an orange a cy for each and every athlete on the football and basketball squads
throughout his coaching and adninistrative years.

In addition to the orange after practice, he has urged every athlete to
cat another orange for breakfast and still another before going to Led — three oranges
@ day and more if possible. Oranges stimlate appetites and at the sone tine satiety
beth thirst ond hunger = thus proventing overentings

The best way to eat an oranges is to break up the cells and let the juice of
the orange cover the entire area of the tongue = thereby stimulating the gastric and
biliary flow. ‘These juices will aid digestion and will assist in elimimting consti-
pation.

 

interes Athletes should drink an average of one glass of water every hour,