[The role of the Czechoslovak Physical Education Society in educating towards a healthy life style].

The paper deals with the participation of physical training and sports in active health protection. Citizens in this country have so far a very passive attitude to health protection and health promotion. Therefore the Central Committee of the National Front asked all social organizations to take a more active part in the health education of citizens. The task of the Czechoslovak Physical Training Association is not only to enforce a healthy lifestyle and to propagate physical training and sports as the most effective and most natural factor of diseases of civilization, but also to create opportunities for recreational sports activities of wide strata of the population.