VITALITY SUPREME
By Bernarr MacfaddenThis book sends forth a message of paramount importance to those who need added efficiency. Adherence to the principles laid down herein will add to the characteristics that ensure splendid achievements. They will increase the power of your body mind and soul. They will help each human entity to become a live personality. They will enable you to live fully, and joyously. They will help you to feel, enjoy, and suffer, every moment of each day. It is only when you are thus thrilled with the eternal force of life that you reach the highest pinnacle of attainable capacities and powers.
The war cry of today in peace no less than in war is for efficiency. We need stronger, more capable men; healthier, superior women. Force is the king of all mankind. And it is a force that stands back of efficiency, for efficiency, first of all, means power. It comes from power, and power either comes directly from inheritance or it is developed by an intelligent application of the laws that control the culture of the physique. The value of efficiency is everywhere recognized. 
The great prizes of life come only to those who are efficient. Those who desire capacities of this sort must recognize the importance of a strong, enduring physique. The body must be developed completely, splendidly. The buoyancy, vivacity, energy, enthusiasm and ambition ordinarily associated with youth can be maintained through middle age and sometimes even to old age. If your efforts are to be crowned with the halo of success, they must be spurred on by the pulsating throbbing powers that accompany physical excellence. These extraordinary characteristics come without effort to but a few of us, but they can be developed, attained, and maintained.
Why not throb with superior vitality! Why not possess the physical energy of a young lion? For then you will compel success. You will stand like a wall if need be, or rush with the force of a charging bison towards the desired achievements. This book sends forth a message of paramount importance to those who need added efficiency. Adherence to the principles laid down herein will add to the characteristics that ensure splendid achievements. They will increase the power of your body mind and soul. They will help each human entity to become a live personality. They will enable you to live fully, and joyously. They will help you to feel, enjoy, and suffer, every moment of each day. It is only when you are thus thrilled with the eternal force of life that you reach the highest pinnacle of attainable capacities and powers. Hidden forces, sometimes marvelous and mysterious, lie within nearly every human soul. Develop, expand and bring out these latent powers. Make your body splendid, your mind supreme; for then you become your real self, you possess all your attainable powers. And men thus developed possess a capital that can not be financially measured. It is worth infinitely more than money. Within the pages of this volume, the pathway leading to these gratifying rewards is clearly described. Adhere to the principles set forth and a generous harvest of physical, mental, and spiritual attainments will surely be yours.
--Bernarr Macfadden
CONTENTS
II. FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY-THE SECRET OF POWER
III. THE PROPER BODILY POSTURE
IV. STIMULATING THE SOURCE OF STAMINA AND VITALITY
V. STRAIGHTENING AND STRENGTHENING THE SPINE
VI. CLEANSING AND STIMULATING THE ALIMENTARY CANAL
VII. EXERCISE FOR VITALITY BUILDING
XIV. FOODS IN THE CURE OF CONSTIPATION
XV. PRESSURE MOVEMENTS FOR BUILDING INNER STRENGTH
XVIII. SOME FACTS ABOUT CLOTHING
