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<p>When I was in medical school in the late 1970s, it was very common to use
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the male model for teaching. For instance, there was the classical
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“70 kilogram man,” and you know, the doses of drugs that would be
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used for a male of that body size, and also the risk factors
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for diseases, and the treatment of various diseases in males.
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The Nurses’ Health Study was started in 1976, with 121 thousand female
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registered nurses. It was really the first large-scale observational study
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of women, looking at risk factors for many chronic diseases—
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breast cancer, colon cancer, heart disease, diabetes,
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and previously, most of these studies had been in men.
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I feel very strongly that there needs to be more of an emphasis on
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prevention and health promotion than there’s been in the past.
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The paradigm has been treatment of disease, more so than
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prevention. And there is increasing evidence that
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lifestyle factors play an enormous role in prevention of disease.
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I’ve often said that regular physical activity is as close to a
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magic bullet for good health as we’ve come in modern medicine,
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despite all the technological advances. The list of conditions that
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can be prevented or at least improved through regular exercise is
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really an expansive one. You’re talking about reduced risk of diabetes,
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heart disease, stroke, obesity, several forms of cancer—
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particular colon cancer and breast cancer, osteoporosis, and many others.
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And the portfolio is enormous.
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Our understanding of the benefits of exercise also
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has evolved over the years.
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We used to believe that vigorous and prolonged exercise
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was necessary in order to improve health.
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That you needed to get your heart rate at least 70 to 80 percent
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maximum, you needed to do the exercise continuously,
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at least 20 minutes, 3 times a week,
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and it had to be quite vigorous.
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We now know that even moderate intensity exercise,
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such as brisk walking—
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and it can be broken up into maybe 15 minutes or even 10
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minutes at a time—can have important health benefits
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including the prevention of heart disease, and stroke, and diabetes,
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and various forms of cancer, and osteoporotic fractures.
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So I think we’re learning more and more about the benefits of moderate
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exercise—which is good news from a public health standpoint.
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Because many people will not engage in vigorous exercise. And setting
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the bar too high, can serve as a deterrent of getting started.</p>
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