CERTAINLY, EXERCISE HAS great health benefits. The early Greek physician Hippocrates, considered the father of medicine, said, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” In the 1950s, along with increasing concern about heart disease, interest in physical activity and exercise began to grow. In 1955, President Eisenhower established the President’s Council on Youth Fitness. By 1966, the U.S. Public Health Service began to advocate that increasing physical activity was one of
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