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Nutrition, Moderate Exercise, and Health

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People who are physically active tend to be healthier than their sedentary peers. Habitual vigorous exercise, however, is pursued by only a minority, particularly of women (1). From the public health view it is important to assess the potential of moderate, socially-acceptable exercise to confer health gains because programmes of high intensity exercise are associated with poor adherence (2) and high risk of orthopaemic injury (3). The short-term increase in cardiovascular risk associated with each bout of exercise is lower for moderate than for vigorous exercise (4), altering favourably the balance between risk and benefit. A growing body of epidemiological evidence shows relationships between moderate-intensity exercise and mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, adult-onset diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and hip fracture.

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Hardman, A.E. (1996). Nutrition, Moderate Exercise, and Health. In: Rogozkin, V.A., Maughan, R. (eds) Current Research in Sports Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2510-0_46

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