Health benefits of physical activity: the evidence
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Summary
It is revealed that the current Health Canada physical activity guidelines are sufficient to elicit health benefits, especially in previously sedentary people, and that a further increase in physical activity and fitness will lead to additional improvements in health status.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2006-03-14
- Cited by
- 8,172
- References
- 163
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2128621051
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6825170
Keywords
Medicine, Physical activity, Disease, Obesity, Physical fitness
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