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Doctor: Lack of Exercise Is a Medical Condition

It's time to treat it as 'deconditioning,' he argues

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 16, 2012 6:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – Didn't exercise this week? You're not just lazy, you have a medical condition, argues one physiologist in the Journal of Physiology. Michael Joyner thinks it's time doctors made a serious push against "deconditioning," he tells NPR's Shots blog. The...   Read full story »

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public health • exercise • fitness • sedentary behavior • medical condition

 
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