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A4M Featured Article Icon  Making Exercise Healthy Anti-Aging Medicine
By Dr. Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM

As years pass, regular exercise is the key factor in maintaining health and mobility. But just as not all medicines are healthful, not all exercise is beneficial. Stretching and exercise may not reduce injury or prevent pain - while joint deterioration is now widespread among many popular fitness personalities of the 1980s. The problem is not only how people exercise. It's also how they go about their activities outside the gym.

Chronic unhealthful body positioning, both in the fitness regimen and in daily routine, promotes tightness, joint injury and muscle and disc pain. Watch people in their workout and in life: Continuous bent-forward postures create a cycle of unhealthful movement habits. Exercises such as abdominal crunches, forward-bending...Read more

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