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Article: Family Health: Why your GP's next prescription may be for a gym class; EXERCISE GIVES THE INFIRM A NEW LEASE OF LIFE.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1999
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LIZ DUDLEY is not the type you expect to meet at fitness classes or working out in a gym.
At 65, she suffers from asthma and emphysema.
Yet here she is benefiting, alongside others who are unfit and unhealthy, from exercise on prescription.
Exercise referral schemes have been praised as a highly effective treatment for heart attack victims, asthma sufferers and people with breathing difficulties or high blood pressure, who all want to improve their health, physical wellbeing and quality of life.
A recent Health Education Authority review ...