The Exercise Cure: A Doctor's All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life Author: Andrew Heffernan | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BY5908S | Format: EPUB
The Exercise Cure: A Doctor's All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life Description
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.
Jordan D. Metzl, MD, explains how everyone can maximize their daily dose in his groundbreaking new book, The Exercise Cure. In The Exercise Cure, Dr. 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.
Today's medical system is largely focused on fixing rather than preventing problems, and many treatments carry significant side effects. Cholesterol-lowering drugs are linked to frequent muscle and joint problems, anti-hypertensive drugs like Beta-blockers cause headaches and diminished energy, and Prozac and other popular anti-depressant medications carry multiple consequences including sexual dysfunction. 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 fun, fat-torching, life-prolonging 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, as well.
- File Size: 4791 KB
- Print Length: 306 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1623360102
- Publisher: Rodale; 1 edition (December 10, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BY5908S
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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What the world doesn’t need is yet another book telling us how good exercise is for us. In spite of its strenuous attempts to be different, I am afraid that Jordan Metzl’s The Exercise Cure falls in that “do we really need this” category.
Before I send this book back to Amazon for a refund, I have given it a fair shot, I think, and see at least three problems with this book.
First, and this is admittedly cosmetic, the layout of the book is most disconcerting. It’s as if an over-enthusiastic teenager had become hooked on all the things she can do with her new page layout program. Virtually every page has some kind of graphic insert, side bar, or specialty box. At times I found myself flipping back from page to page to try to figure out where I was and what I was supposed to be reading.
But then again, that kind of distraction may be a blessing, since the text itself is very difficult to read. Set in two columns on each page and in a 9-point font, my feeling is that if your eyes are young enough to read this book, you probably don’t needed it. To compound matters, the text shifts from a serif to a san-serif font on virtually every page, and then presents those sections of san-serif fonts in a nearly impossible to read light grey type.
The second problem with this book is the implied standard we are apparently to hold ourselves to. The author is quite proud of the fact that he has completed 30 marathons and 11 Ironman triathlons (this claim is on the cover and is repeated early on in the book itself). To make matters worse, the first case study the book presents is of a young woman who originally weighted 330 pounds and through the miracle of exercise turned her life around and has now completed 3 marathons and 29 half-marathons.
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