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Article: Fit for the future: a 10-step plan to muscle up exercise programs.
- Article from:
- The Futurist
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
- Author:
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Exercise has finally been recognized as important for health. But fitness professionals still get no respect as serious players in the health-care industry.
In recent years, evidence has grown that you can do more for your own health than all the best doctors and hospitals combined, and one way is through exercise.
A pioneering study of London bus drivers and ticket takers, done in the 1950s, showed a clear connection between daily activity and heart disease. Bus ticket takers, who walked up and down the aisles of the buses, had a lower incidence of heart problems than the bus drivers, who spent most of their time seated. Since that finding, many studies ...