运动为医学。

What if I told you that you could get a prescription for a medicine that would

• lower your blood pressure
• bring your blood sugars down to normal
• help you lose weight
• improve your cholesterol levels
• help you sleep better
• 使骨头更坚固
• 改善或保护您的心脏
• 保护你免受癌症的侵害

Interested? Well this medicine really exists! Ther is just one catch: it will take you 30 minutes each day to take this medicine. Still interested? You may have guessed that this “medicine” is exercise.

如果您很难相信锻炼可以完成以上所有事情（以及更多），请不要说服我，请访问我们自己的联邦政府卫生与公共服务部网站（http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/adultguide/default.aspx), where for the first time, they have come out with “official” recommendations for exercise and physical activity to combat “hypokinetic disease” (means “low movement”, aka “sedentariansm” or couch potato syndrome). These recommendations were based on an exhaustive search of the research by a committee of leading experts in the field of exercise and medicine over a 2-year period.

成年人的建议至少为每周150分钟的心血管（或有氧运动）活动。它还建议每周至少两天进行力量训练练习。对于儿童来说，他们每天都应该获得60分钟的心血管活动，并且每周进行两到三次的力量训练。（有关更多信息，请访问上面的网站）。

The month of May is Physical Activity month, and the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is promoting May as the “Exercise is Medicine month”, in order to encourage physicians to prescribe exercise as part of your regular office visit. (Read more about it athttp://www.cerciseismedicine-public.org/).

Your healthcare team here at Beaver Medical Group encourage you to shoot for the minimum goal of 150 minutes per week this month. If you need help in starting an exercise program, feel free to contact our Health Education department and sign up for one of our classes or make a private appointment. As always, no referral is needed and it’s free, so call 335-4131 and start taking your daily dose of exercise medicine today!