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Exercise medicine and physical activity promotion: core curricula for US medical schools, residencies and sports medicine fellowships: developed by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine
Regular physical activity provides a variety of health benefits and is proven to treat and prevent several non-communicable diseases. Specifically, physical activity enhances muscular and osseous strength, improves cardiorespiratory fitness, and reduces the risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, mental health disorders, cognitive decline and several cancers. Despite these well-known benefits, physical activity promotion in clinical practice is underused due to insufficient training during medical education. Medical trainees in the USA receive relatively few hours of instruction in sports and...
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - March 17, 2022 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Asif, I., Thornton, J. S., Carek, S., Miles, C., Nayak, M., Novak, M., Stovak, M., Zaremski, J. L., Drezner, J. Tags: Editor's choice, BJSM Consensus statement Source Type: research

Physical Inactivity and Life Expectancy in Canada.
CONCLUSIONS: Life expectancy could be increased by over 10 months if Canadians could be encouraged to be physically active. PMID: 28834494 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Physical Activity and Health - August 25, 2017 Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Phys Act Health Source Type: research