Fitness Trails
- 24 March 1977
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 296 (12) , 690-691
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197703242961213
Abstract
In a search for ways to control rising medical-care costs, particularly those resulting from end-stage cardiovascular disorders, as well as to promote healthful personal behavior, a number of governments, including Canada,1 Sweden and Switzerland, have initiated comprehensive preventive campaigns emphasizing the need for people to alter habitual practices that lead to ill health. One focus of such programs is the lack of exercise engendered by conditions in the workplace, at home and on the road. Although there are still valid professional questions about the importance of exercise to health,1 much epidemiologic and physiologic evidence suggests that the maintenance of lifetime . . .Keywords
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