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Exercise is Powerful Medicine
Instructions:
Click on the button to the right and watch the PowerPoint slideshow.
Then, return here and answer the 28 questions below.
Exercise is Powerful Medicine
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1. Exercise prevents high blood pressure.
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2. Fitness protects against high cholesterol.
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3. Fitness protects against obesity.
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4. Fitness prevents type 2 diabetes, and if you already have type 2 diabetes, exercise protects against the medical complications.
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5. Exercise prevents heart attacks.
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6. Fitness protects against stroke.
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7. Exercise prevents colon cancer.
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8.Fitness protects against all cancers.
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Especially Colon, Breast, and Prostate Cancers.
9. Exercise prevents osteoporosis.
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10. Exercise protects against mental illness.
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11. Reduces age-related dementia.
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12. Exercise reduces symptoms of anxiety.
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13. Exercise reduces feelings of distress and fatigue.
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14. Exercise effectively treats depression.
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15. Fitness is the best predictor of health and longevity.
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16. Exercise is the most important factor for preventing disease and improving health, fitness, and longevity.
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17. High fit men with high cholesterol havea lower risk of dying than low fit men with normal cholesterol.
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18. There is no statistical difference in mortality rates between highly fit normal weight and highly fit obese individuals.
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19. Diabetics can cut their risk of dying by 50% by just walking 30 minutes per day.
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20. People with heart disease shouldNOT exercise, because exercise causes heart attacks.
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21. People who are moderately fit have a 63% lower risk of dying from a stroke than people who are low fit.
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22. Exercise eliminates the risk of getting cancer from smoking tobacco.
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23. Only older post-menopausal women need to exercise in order to prevent osteoporosis.
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24. Regular exercise is effective in enhancing one's sense of well-being.
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25. In addition to treating depression as effectively as medication, regular exercise provided the benefits of improved mental capabilities in concentration, organization, and planning.
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Whereas medication did not.
26. A person's level of fitness is a better predictor of their longevity than is their blood pressure, choleserol, diabetes, and heart disease COMBINED.
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27. Most of the benefits of exercise are not realized unless one exercises vigorously for at least 1 hour/day.
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28. More exercise equals less disease and mental illness, which means exercise is dose-dependent.
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