Medical-Fitness Technician
Certification Course
Part B: Exercise & Chronic Disease
Learning Modules: 11-24
Learning Module 24:
Summary of the Health Benefits Exercise
Watch the Video, Review the Notes, Take the Quiz.
Video Notes
Our other 13 short videos in this series show that the more you exercise:
  • The less likely you are to develop High Blood Pressure.
  • The more protected you are against the effects of having High Cholesterol.
  • The more protected you are from the negative health effects of Obesity.
  • The less likely you are to develop Type 2 Diabetes.
  • The more protected you are against the effects of having Diabetes.
  • The less likely you are of having a Heart Attack.
  • The less likely you are of having a fatal Stroke.
  • The less likely you are of dying from Cancer (especially Colon, Breast, Prostate)
  • The less likely you are of fracturing your hip due cto Osteiporosis.
  • The more protected you are from developing a Mental Illness. (Anxiety, Distress, Fatigue, etc.)
  • The better your recovery from Clinical Depression and its impaired Mental Abilities.
  • The more protected you are from the onset and progression of Dementia.
  • The more protected you are from all causes of death (mortality).
  • The more likely you will live a longer and healthier life.

More Exercise = significantly less physical disease and mental illness, along with a higher level of fitness and a better quality of life.

Conclusion: Exercise is the most important factor for preventing disease and improving health, fitness, and longevity.
Exercise is Powerful Medicine!
"If exercise could be packed in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation." Robert Butler, MD, National Institute on Aging
"Food is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and exercise is the most potent, yet underutilized anti-depressant." Bill Phillips, Personal Trainer, Founder of 'Body for Life'
"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air, and exercise." Thomas Edison, Scientist & Inventor
"The doctor of the future will be oneself." Albert Schweitzer, MD, Medical Missionary to Africa