
At least he’s trying…
I’ve long advocated that life and health insurance companies base their premiums on results of individual treadmill exercise tests or similar. Here’s why.
From CNN:
We’ve all heard exercise helps you live longer. But a new study goes one step further, finding that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
Dr. Wael Jaber, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and senior author of the study, called the results “extremely surprising.”
“Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis, as far as death, than being hypertensive, being diabetic or being a current smoker,” Jaber told CNN. “We’ve never seen something as pronounced as this and as objective as this.”
Source: Not exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease – CNN
Most folks can improve their fitness by exercising regularly. But what about nonresponders?
Steve Parker, M.D.
PS: All of my weight-loss books recommend and teach you how to improve your level of fitness.
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Eat less and move more to stay healthy.
Eat less and move more to stay healthy.