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Article: Small Changes, Big Benefits; You don't have to break a sweat to improve your health, you just need to get moving.(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- February 20, 2006
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Byline: Harvey B. Simon, M.D. (SIMON is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His new book, "The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer" (
McGraw-Hill
), was published last month. The CME data in the graphic are excerpted from tables 4.2 and 4.3 of the book. For more information on exercise and health, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.)
Sweat has always been the elixir of exercise and the mark of its success. The aerobics revolution of the 1970s added theory to the practice of vigorous exercise. To benefit from working out, scientists told us, you had to push your heart rate to 70 to 85 percent of its maximum, ...