Man is a bundle of nerves and muscles and due to the coordination of these all his

movements become possible. One beauty about man is while he has the same nerves and
muscles of other animals he is not one, because he has a unique faculty. The seat of those
activities being the brain. The brain involve a man's life considerably. During the wakeful hours
and to some extent during sleep, the brain, the nerves and the muscles do not stop functioning.
These activities arc not merely mechanical and they involve biochemical changes in the body.
That means in the tissues food particles are burnt and the end products are acids, carbon dioxide
and water vapor. Though they are being periodically and regularly removed, they still linger in
the tissues reducing their efficiency. This condition goes by the name of fatigue and the fatigued
tissues refuse to function normally. They may be strained like the last straw on the camel's back.

Now the symptoms of fatigue are the following; inattention, yawning, wandering of
thought, lack of efficiency, feeling driven, restlessness, lack of interest and insomnia.

To do away with fatigue, relaxation is very important. Relaxation is usually secured by

means of rest, recreation or change of occupation. When we relax the overworked part gets the
needed rest and the toxins are cleared. Relaxation like the pursuit of a hobby, taking long walks,
spending time in the company of books and with those whom one loves and changing
occupation is certainly desirable. Swimming, painting, fishing, and playing games are physical
recreations. Reading, singing folk songs, and community singing are some mental recreations.
So the nature of recreation depends on whether fatigue is physical or mental.

Work - fatigue - relaxation - this cycle is only nature's order. There is nothing to worry
about. One should relax to work and work to relax. Life cannot be all work; nor can it be all
relaxation, for 'All work and no play makes a boy dull and all play and no work makes a boy
foolish'. So definitely work periods must be followed by relaxation out his time between work
and relaxation. Even in the midst of work one may find ways of relaxation. Keeping the eyes
closed for a few minutes, or stretching the limbs or lying flat, is sure to bring the needed
relaxation. Noise is one of the things that brings about fatigue and so noise reducing methods
are to be adopted. For instance, in cities big offices are insulated from noise and heat.
Employees are provided with facilities for relaxation like shower bath, snacks and tea. Even the
very decoration is calculated to ease tension. To this end furniture is designed to cause less
fatigue.

Mentally one must know how to relax. One must run one's brains on light gear. Worry
gnaws at the brain's efficiency and hence tension is created. One should practice how to switch
off' thoughts for a while and relax. Mental relaxation is often secured by viewing life in its
proper perspective.

Last but not least adhering to proper sleeping hours is one way to relax both the body and
mind for 'sleep is nature's secret restorer'.

The modern man with all life's complexities has every reason to learn how to relax if he
wants to lead an efficient, healthy and useful life.
 Disability refers to the condition of being physically or mentally disabled or challenged.
The physically disabled are those physically handicapped such as the crippled, the blind, the
mute as well those having some form of physical deformities. Those mentally disabled suffer
from mental retardation such as cerebral palsy and down syndrome among others.
There are thousands of disabled people in Asia and many face discrimination on a regular basis
which takes many forms. Very few employers hire disabled people as the latter is considered
more a liability than an asset in the organization. However, these fears are completely
unfounded. Many a blind and hearing impaired persons have contributed tremendously to
organizations they are attached to. In fact, there are many cases of how disabled personalities
have done themselves proud by being their own bosses. Their success stories include those how
run their own business such as shops, restaurants, handicraft centers in addition to those who
have become teachers and professionals through sheer hard work and determination. Many have
even become successful sports persons participating in Paralympics Games and winning
medals. It is a folly to think that only physically able people can make one's country and nation
proud.

However, those who are successful are only a handful. Since many encounter
discrimination, they tend to alienate themselves from society as they feel unwanted and
rejected, Our mind set has to change to accept these people and integrate them into our society.

The government should introduce steps to ensure all the disabled people have access to
education and employment. In fact, special legislations and laws ought to be introduced that
makes it compulsory for employers to allocate a certain number of jobs for the disabled. The
Welfare department too should provide financial assistance and medical access to disabled
persons who come from poor backgrounds.

On-going campaigns to educated society on the need to accept and live in harmony
with the disabled, rather than treat them as burdens or pariahs, need to be launched. In fact, the
awareness should start from a young age. Instead of setting up special schools for the disabled,
the government should institute regulations that abolish such schools and the disabled children
sent to regular schools. this would enable the regular students to understand and accept their
peers despite the latter being obviously disadvantaged. the disabled children too would not
suffer from low esteem or even feel embarrassed mixing with regular children.

In addition, most of our public infrastructure, public transport and government

buildings are not disabled-friendly. There has to be a concerted effort to ensure the disabled
have access to these places and not feel hampered in anyway.

Thus, it is high time that we accept the disabled as an important component of our
society. Despite their handicap, they play an important role in our lives and at the same time the
need our respect, acceptance and understanding.
 It has become conventional to trace most worthwhile features of civilization to
classical times, but in the case of physical education, it is essential. The Greeks placed physical
culture high on the list of noble virtues; to gain the victor's laurel wreath at the Olympics was a
high honor. he Romans were no less enthusiastic, it is said that even Nero competed for
Olympic honors. The idea of physical prowess was to impart the stoic virtues of physical
courage and indifference to pain necessary both in warfare and in the battle of life. The modern
theory of physical education is very different. it all began with a revival of the Olympic in the
early part of the present century, after a time lag of almost 2,000 years in which games and
athletics had been either local and spasmodic, and non-existent.

The new idea was based on the idea of physical education for its won sake, and healthy
international competition, as a means of raising standards. The effect of an unbroken series of
Olympiad has been that today, in almost every country in the world, almost every child, young
man and woman has a built in aspiration to excel in some physical activity or another. This is
fostered by parents, but more particularly in schools, where, all over the world, physical
education forms an important part of the curriculum. In earlier days, women and girls took a
relatively small part, as they were hampered by social and dress conventions. Today, women
quarter-milers are as fast as the men quarter-milers were in the '30s. Again nowadays, the
emphasis is not on body bulk and brute force, but on speed, suppleness and 'wiriness,' and
coaching is designed to produce this kind of physique -- so is the diet planned for athlete.

The love of sport and physical education actually originate in Britain, where for
centuries all classes had followed their own athletic pursuits -- football and rugby, cricket,
swimming and boxing. It was the British who introduced winter sports to Switzerland ! But the
Olympiads caused the spread of sports and games to all corners of the globe, so that today, the
finest exponents of many sports and games are to be found in the Far East. These are such as
suit the Far Eastern physique, with its light build and suppleness -- hockey, football, judo, table-
tennis, acrobatics and tumbling, netball (basketball) and ice-skating.

Nowadays, the importance of correct, balanced feeding is recognized on all sides as the
essential basis for the athletic physique. Fats and starch are avoided, while food containing
protein and vitamins are encouraged. Adequate sleep is important and so is personal hygiene,
including abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. These are merely the basis on which advanced
coaching can be built.

But competition and kudos are not the only motive for an interest in physical education.
Nowadays, the competent amateur in almost any sport is tempted to become the paid
professional, and rich prizes are available to those who succeed in the world of boxing, football
and tennis, to quote but a few. Apart from money the professional athlete enjoys world-travel
and sometimes world-fame; he can do much for his country's image in the eyes of foreign
nations. But there is more even than this. The athlete, whether amateur or professional, plays his
or her game primarily, because it brings pleasure, because it sustains health, because it builds
resistance to constitutional weakness and disease. Neither must sport be given up in youth;
Stanley Mathews plays first division soccer at 50. even the lesser man can go on playing golf as
long as he can still walk and perhaps this identifies the most important argument in favor of
physical education -- the provision of an absorbing leisure activity which refreshes, in that it is a
complete contrast with the normal paid occupation. Further merits, applicable more to team
games, are the ability to show self-control of body and mind -- merits learned in the process of
playing with one's fellows.

Excess in physical exertion, as in anything else, has its dangers. Athletics should be
avoided by those with any weakness such as heart disease or blood-pressure, but common sense
and the doctor's advice are the guiding principles here. Neither should physical education be
allowed to become a fetish. However competent an athlete may be, the world will require brains
rather than brawn -- an active mind is worth more than an active body ! There is also the danger
that mass -- hysteria may put the athlete on a higher pedestal than the doctor, the teacher, or
even the statesman. Let us be quite clear that their true place is lower in the scheme of things.
Physical education is an excellent thing -- in its place !
 It is alleged that Sir Walter Raleigh first imported the 'noxious weed' into Britain
from America and the smoking habit swiftly caught on. Today, the tobacco industry brings
employment to thousands in the various growing, picking, curing and manufacturing processes.
Most of it comes from America, Turkey or the Balkans, but tobacco is shipped to factories for
curing and manufacturing in almost every country in the world, although its ownership is shared
between a few giant international combines. Cigars, pipe tobacco, cigarettes, and snuff, (another
by-product) are subjected to government anti-smoking propaganda, a sharp decline in tobacco
consumption is not desired by countries such as Britain, as it would result in an embarrassing
financial loss.

Why, then, all the fuss ? Why is there the increasingly large and vocal body of anti-
smoking opinion ? It is perfectly true that pipe-smokers always smell of tobacco, that snuff-
takers have stained upper-lips, that a room littered with full ash trays and tea-cups full of
sodden cigarette ends is disgusting. even the smell of tobacco offends some people; hence the
banning of cigarettes in many theaters and cinemas and the provision of non-smoking
compartments on aircraft. But the real objection -- so we are told -- is the marked tendency of
addicted cigarette smokers to bronchial and respiratory complaints, some of which are fatal, and
most important of all, the high incidence of lung cancer.

Nobody denies that smoking habits are distasteful to the non-smoker, but opinion is
harpy divided about the alleged medical harm. Statistics can be made to prove anything, and
while doctors alarming figures allege a direct connection between cigarette smoking and lung
cancer, the cigarette maker's own research, understandably enough, seems to indicate that there
is no connection at all, and furthermore that more lung cancer is caused by atmospheric
pollution in industrial cities than by the smoking habit. So far, the medical case remains 'not
proven', but it is sufficiently frightening to deter many people who have never smoked before
from making start.

Furthermore, the doctors admit that there are degrees of danger The heavy (i.e. 20+)
addicted cigarette smoker who inhales the smoke is most liable to lung cancer, those who do not
inhale much less liable; pipe-smokers are much safer. To inhale cigars is particularly dangerous.
Yet, Sir Winston Churchill who smoked eight or ten large Havana cigars a day, lived to see 90;
but, the observers say, he did no inhale! Probably the dispute will not be settled until much
more is known about the nature of cancer itself. But meanwhile, the propaganda gathers
momentum both for and against. tens of thousands are spent on advertising in the press,
magazines and on radio and television. Efforts are being made in Britain to ban this television
publicity.

Whether or not to smoke, must remain a matter for the individual. Nothing is more
likely to increase smoking than attempts to discourage it or even make it illegal. The curious
schoolboy who is forbidden a cigarette at home will only smoke in secret. America, during the
days of prohibition, consumed more liquor than at any other time in her history. But smoking,
to any sane individual, is a vice to be discouraged whenever possible, particularly among young
people, and it is quite distressing to see cigarettes drooping from the lips if young people whose
parents and grandparents probably never smoked in their lives. they are certainly the victims of
the clever advertising propagandists who make it appear sophisticated, or manly, or smart to
indulge. Tobacco 'goes up in smoke' and is therefore a sheer waste money. At the very least, it
affects the wind and is harmful to athletes, and it is an undeniably dirty habit. Also, it can easily
become a craving and a necessity, and pleasure which becomes this, becomes a vice.

Yet, despite all this, people go on smoking and perhaps it is only fair to put the case for
smokers. If asked, a smoker would say that he enjoys the 'taste' of his cigarette, cigar, or pipe,
but there is more to it than that. Life is busy and lived at a great pace nowadays. Nerves are
easily frayed, tempers shortened, brains busy, but hands inactive. A cigarette soothes -- during
that difficult interview, or making that important decision. It also helps concentration, and there
may indeed be something in the idea of having the mouth and the hands active as well as the
brain. And everybody knows that a cigarette helps to 'break the ice' in social relationships and
the phrase 'have a cigarette' is often a good opening gambit between strangers.

But the best advice about the smoking remains this. If you do, cut down; if you don't,
don't start !
 As students, most of us lead sedentary lifestyles. We spend most of our time in
claustrophobic classrooms and homes. With loads of homework, assignments and exams,
exercise seems to be a monotonous chore. The increasing demands made upon us by our
studies, exams and the high expectations of our parents and teachers leave us with little time for
pleasure and leisure. The need to exercise becomes a bitter pill to swallow. Nonetheless, health
experts prescribe exercise as a prerequisite for along, healthy life -- a life free from diseases
and ailments.

Physical exercise not only stimulates and develops muscles, it has a host of other
benefits. Regular exercise can prevent obesity. When we exercise, our bodies burn up all the
extra calories which would otherwise be converted into fat and lead to unwanted bulges. Being
overweight also carries with it a number of other health problems, so, exercising not only keeps
us trim, it also keeps away weight-related problems.

Exercise improves blood circulation which, in turn, provides constant nourishment to

the millions of cells in our body. When physical exertion takes place, the rate of breathing
increases. Thus, the capacity of blood to carry oxygen is increased. At the same time, it helps
the body to get rid of harmful carbon dioxide.

Vigorous exercise also eliminates modern-day stress. The number of people suffering
from insomnia is on the rise. The increasing pressure and nagging worries of work and study
often keep us awake at night. For many of us, the dawn of a new day brings no cheer. Exercise
can be instrumental in helping a person obtain a more relaxed sleep. A tired person will be
refreshed and high-spirited after a good night's sleep. A few hours of exercise will help in
getting sound sleep and is the perfect, soothing balm for a tired body and a restless mind.

Increasing affluence has caused changes in our eating habits. we indulge in rich food,
high in calories and cholesterol. Medical evidence substantiates the fact that exercise can
significantly lower the levels of sugar and cholesterol in our bodies. In other words, consistent
physical activity can actually provide relief from ailments such as hypertension, diabetes and
heart disease.

There are many benefits to be gained from exercise. A person who exercises regularly
has good health and more vitality compared to someone who does not exercise.