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Dr. Steven
Blair |
To improve
your health, get moving, expert
tells BGSU
The number one reason cited by Americans when asked
why they do not exercise is a lack of time—we’re
simply too busy, they say. And yet when asked how
much time they spend watching television, they report
about three hours a day on average.
“Three hours a day of TV but no time for three,
10-minute walks”—all the time it takes
to raise one’s fitness level and dramatically
improve one’s health, observed Dr. Steven
Blair, president and CEO of the Cooper Institute,
one of the world’s leading research and medical
facilities for preventive medicine.
Blair was on campus Jan. 12 to discuss “Physical
Inactivity: The Major Public Health Challenge of
the 21st Century,” as the first speaker in
the 2005 President’s Lecture Series.
Citing data from the institute’s Aerobics
Center Longitudinal Study, which since 1970 has
followed more than 80,000 patients, Blair told a
standing-room-only audience that “being fit
is really good for you, folks. And how do you get
to be fit? Regular, moderate physical exercise."
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