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The Movement Towards Fitness Not Thinness
Medical Authorities Say Just Moving Goes a Long Way, No Matter What You Weigh
| Source: Move Yourself
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - May 29, 2008) - Most people describe their days as frantic and
busy, but if you take less than five thousand steps before you hit the bed,
you're not only inactive, you're sedentary.
Being active is the message behind, "Move Yourself: The Cooper Clinic
Medical Director's Guide to All the Healing Benefits of Exercise" (Wiley,
2008). Drawing upon the thousands of patients who have visited Dallas'
Cooper Clinic, Dr. Tim Church and Cooper Clinic medical director Dr. Tedd
Mitchell have found that it is pure activity that makes the difference when
it comes to our health.
"There is no pill or substance that can produce as many health dividends as
physical activity," says Church, a former lead researcher and director at
the Cooper Clinic who now serves as professor of preventive medicine at
Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University.
"Unfortunately we are inundated with exercise programs and workouts that
are too complex and time consuming so most people skip it. If you're
sedentary, you should not even engage in an exercise program; the focus
should be simply on increasing movement."
"Move Yourself" is unlike many prior fitness books because it advocates
activity, not a plan. Rather than designing a regimented workout plan,
Mitchell and Church advocate the use of pedometers to track the number of
steps you take in a day. Once you reach 8,500 steps, they say it's okay to
graduate to a formal exercise program.
"The focus should be on fitness not on thinness," says Mitchell. "Americans
are at a very critical juncture when it comes to their health, so simply
moving more must be the new fitness movement of the 21st century or disease
will continue to skyrocket."
"Move Yourself," can be purchased at major bookstores, Amazon.com or at the
Cooper Fitness Center on Preston Road.