The liability of a person to colds, it is claimed in America, can be predicted by a new method that tests an individual 's ability to absorb oxygen during exercise. Wearing an oxygen mask, the enbject hand pedals a stationary bieycle, while reseacTi workers measuve tjie amount of oxygen consumed for each square foot of body surface. The greater the amount a person consumes. the higher his "fitness rating." Tests of 100 volunteers showed that their actual resistance to colcls apprbximated this estimated
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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