The Exercise Cure: A Doctor#s All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life

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Harmony/Rodale, Dec 23, 2014 - Health & Fitness - 304 pages
A simple approach to weight loss and better health, with an exhaustive (and exhausting) collection of fun, fat-torching, life-changing workouts that can be tailored to any fitness level
 
“This is a must read for everyone who wants to live a long and active life.”—Robert Sallis, MD, former president, American College of Sports Medicine
 
What if there were a drug to treat every illness, across all body systems, proven potent against heart disease, depression, arthritis, PMS and erectile dysfunction—even in chronic diseases such as asthma, dementia, and certain types of cancer? What if it had no side effects, was completely free, readily available, and worked for everyone? Every single person who took it decreased her risk of premature death and raised his quality of life. Would you want it?

In a healthcare system that spends 17% of GDP, roughly $2.7 trillion, mostly on disease treatment, how do we save money and prevent illness? By increasing the use of the world's most effective preventive medicine: exercise.

In The Exercise Cure, Dr. Jordan Metzl—nationally renowned sports medicine physician—offers malady-specific and well-researched exercise prescriptions to help readers stay healthy, heal disease, drop pounds, increase longevity, and transform their lives.

Dr. Metzl knows that exercise is inexpensive, powerful medicine that has benefits in prevention and treatment of disease without disturbing side effects. Even in older adults, daily exercise has been found to prevent dementia by generating neuron development in the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain.

Combining the latest data and his proven motivational skills, Dr. Metzl addresses the common maladies troubling millions. He discusses our cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neurologic, reproductive, and endocrinologic body systems, with special sections on sleep problems and cancer prevention, presenting the science behind the role of exercise as medicine. Then, he details workouts that can be tailored easily to any fitness level, beginner to advanced, and provides nutritional information, including meal plans for healthy eating and disease prevention.
 

Contents

PART 1
17
SPECIAL SECTION
18
Cardiopulmonary Problems
47
Hormonal and Sexual Problems
75
Musculoskeletal Problems
95
Cancer
146
BRONZE
163
Months 46
209
GOLD
229
PART 4
254
The Only Eating Advice
280
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JORDAN METZL, MD, is the author of The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies and a nationally known sports medicine physician at New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery. He appears regularly on the esteemed New York Magazine's Top Doctors list. Prior to joining NYC Hospital for Special Surgery, Dr. Metzl completed his fellowship in sports medicine and dance medicine at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. He lives in New York City.

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