For Health and Fitness Advice, Ask A Fit Doctor

When it comes to doctors, they are what they prescribe. A new study suggests that fit doctors are more likely to recommend exercise than doctors who are less fit. HealthDay reports that when researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed certain markers of physical health — such as cardiorespiratory fitness — and attitudes on physical-activity counseling in 577 medical students over the course of five years, they found that 80 percent of students believed physical-activity counseling would be highly relevant in their future clinical practice. They also found that students who said exercise counseling was important were in good shape themselves, and were 1.7 times more likely to exhibit healthy levels of cardiorespiratory fitness and 3.2 times more likely to have normal triglyceride (blood fat) levels than students who didn't believe exercise was as important.

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