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11/06/2012 18:40
A growing phenomenon and practice that is emerging in the medical community is the concept and prescription of ´exercise is medicine´ (EIM). This theme has been the focus of recent conferences such as the American College of Sports Medicine´s 59th Annual Meeting and 3rd Congress on Exercise is Medicine, in San Francisco, held from May 29th - June 2nd, 2012 and at the recent Global Forum for Physical Education Pedagogy 2012, held in Velen, Germany last month.
n addition to this emerging trend, the American College of Sports Medicine has recently launched an ´Exercise is Medicine® Credential´ that will improve the accountability and quality of exercise instruction offered by fitness industry professionals and to help physicians identify such qualified professionals in the prescription of exercise to patients. This EIM initiative was originally launched by the American Medical Association in 2007 and the new EIM credential aims to ensure quality standards for fitness professionals.
More information can be found on the American College of Sports Medicine website: http://www.acsm.org/about-acsm/media-room/news-releases/2012/03/29/acsm-to-launch-exercise-is-medicine-credential
Dr. Mike Evans is a Toronto, Canada based physician that is actively promoting the exercise is medicine concept as has created a very interesting video link that illustrates an unusual explanation of the health benefits from limiting one´s sitting time to 23.5 hours a day:
For more information on this and other projects see Dr. Evans´ website: http://www.myfavouritemedicine.com/