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Exercise Good As Or Better Than Heart Pills

Exercise Good As Or Better Than Heart Pills
Exercise can be as good as medication for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study has found. A study in the British Medical Journal looked at hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients and found moderate physical activity, for example, reducing the risk of stroke by up to 27%.

Exercise can be as good as medication for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study has found.

The British Medical Journal report compared hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients and found exercise rivalliing some heart drugs and outperforming stroke medicine in preventing death.

"Moderate physical activity, for example, can reduce the risk of stroke by up to 27%."

(READ the story in the BBC)

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