How to Add 5 Years to Your Life by J.W. Denny, April 10, 1926

What Would You “Give for Five More Years of Life?

By J.W. Denny, Director

Department of Physical Education of Y.M.C.A.

What would you give for five more years of life? Five more years to play the game—to see more dreams realized—to make good your promises—to reach the coveted goal—to fulfill your desires?

Five more years of life—of the glory of the sun, tang of sea and wind, of work, of happiness, of joy, of laughter, of love!

What would you give for them? Money cannot buy them—nor lack of money keep them away!

Strong, vigorous, active, five more years of life promise much in the day of accomplishment. But what of your strength and vigor?

Are you burning the candle at both ends? Are you letting your health get away through lack of care? Are you robbing yourself of five or more years of life?

You can make them a present to yourself! Only you can do it. No one else can help you. Shoulders back, head erect, resolve reborn to listen to Nature again and snatch from the swiftly sifting sands of time a few more years of life—live as you want it to be.

Make the five more years of life yours! Do your share. Give Nature a chance to build your future with your hearty co-operation.

Take care what you eat. Exercise carefully. Sleep enough. Use your Y.M.C.A. gymnasium and join in with the rest of the fellows in the stride for continued good health.

Your Y.M.C.A. conducts an up-to-the-minute physical department for your benefit, for the benefit of every one desiring to further interest in stronger bodies, keener minds, better spirit.

The busier you are these days, the more chances old man Sickness has of visiting you with a smack between the eyes, unless you take a few minutes to exercise each day.

Afternoon or evening, all through the summer. How about a cooling shower bath at the Y? When it’s 90 degrees in the shade, how about a cool shower bath, a delightful swim in the big pool, and the rest of the day feel like a king?

Youngsters should begin to think about getting in on the summer joys for “Y” boys.

Your silent partner commands you to stop and think why your energy, strength and ambition seem to be fading a little. Your silent partner commands you to stop and think about why your energy, strength and ambition seem to be fading a little. Your silent partner is your health. Heed him now, take an interest in your health. A few minutes given over to careful exercise and proper recreation will put you back in your old-time form and keep you there.

From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 10, 1926

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