According to researchers from Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine:
Exercise may be as effective as medication in preventing early death in people who’ve had heart attacks or strokes, a new study suggests…
This adds to a large volume of research on the benefits of regular physical activity. Exercise has been shown to lower the risk of early death, help control weight and reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression, some types of cancer and a host of other conditions. It lowers the risk of cognitive decline and hip fractures.
(USA Today, October 2, 2013)
I appreciate of course that many of you would rather take a pill than exercise. This, after all, is why diet pills are so popular.
But with medicinal crack like statins doing more to inflict chronic pain than to lower cholesterol, perhaps the result of this study is just the trigger you need to start doing more physical exercise and less popping pills.
That is, I concede, unless some pharmaceutical company finally comes up with that elusive exercise pill….