Exercise
Healing through Exercise
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Mar 16, 2009 - 1:27:35 PM

A New Way to Prevent and Overcome Illness—and Lengthen Your Life


(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Sixty percent of the world’s population is described as sedentary, and treatment for sedentary citizens in the United States alone costs 75 billion dollars a year. With a health care system in crisis and deaths from cancer and heart disease on the rise, now, more than ever, Americans are looking for answers to their urgent health concerns.

In Healing through Exercise, Jörg Blech reveals the treatment that has become masked by modern convenience: exercise. While doctors tend to follow only the research in their own field—and while their time to read the latest data is limited because they’re busy caring for patients—Blech, as a science journalist, is in a unique position to synthesize the vast amount of information in this area. He concludes that exercise not only prevents but treats many of the major diseases afflicting Americans today, including osteoporosis, asthma, osteoarthritis, chronic pain, and type 2 diabetes.

Blech builds the case for exercise with examples ranging from President Eisenhower’s heart treatment to studies conducted by NASA, dismantling old preconceptions about bed rest along the way. The core of his book points to new research in neuroscience linking exercise to brain cell growth, Alzheimer’s prevention, and the treatment of psychological mood disorders including depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

In this time of economic turmoil, Healing through Exercise proves that exercise can reduce the nation’s health care costs while having a dramatic impact on the physical well-being of its individual citizens.

Jörg Blech is an internationally best-selling science writer. The U.S.-based correspondent for Der Spiegel, his articles have appeared in New Scientist and The Guardian, among other publications. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

March 15, 2009 $26.00 Hardcover 243 Pages Health / Science ISBN: 978-0-7382-1299-9
A Merloyd Lawrence Book

“[Blech] offers some easy ways to be more active.”—Publishers Weekly

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