The ideal medicine? Excercise

A exercise one day keeps the doctor away, like an apple. The newspaper El País makes it official that if:

Exercise was a pill, there wouldn’t be a doctor who wouldn’t prescribe it. Reduces the risk of all-cause mortality, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, colon and breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, functional dependence and falls in the elderly, cognitive impairment, anxiety and depression.

Giving advice on daily exercise as a health force is the UK health system. In fact, a study for the rating of the results of sports regulation and its impact on the reduction ofburden of care. The UK health system research has a budget of £12.7 million (€15 million).

Side effects are very minor if the exercise is adequate in relation to the person practicing it. A way to reduce the load of medicines about people. In short, a solution for fewer physical problems, less care and lower healthcare costs. However, it should be borne in mind that even if there is a medical prescription, the patient is not necessarily obliged to follow the advice about physical activity.

The point at stake is the determination of how much, how and what type of exercise is appropriate for each person. The only certainty is that the person can only benefit from sports. There are experts who are skeptical about it Modify of habits of patients.

A previous UK study found that when patients were referred to public gyms and swimming pools, there was no improvement in physical activity – a necessary, but not sufficient, condition.

Fernando Rodríguez Artalejo, professor of public health at the Autonomous University of Madrid