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more [i]or[/i] less behavior modification programs designed to increase exercise point out to continued effects for at least three month after they period according to an Aug 2 2004 novels release from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The review of existing evidence, however, also showed that it is difficult to achieve sustainable gains in increased physical activity because hardly any studies looked at the general intents of these programs for more than undivided year.

According to late statistics, 70% of US adults are not sufficiently physically active, and more than one-third of children do not participate in vigorous exercise regularly. A cogitation released by the Centers for Disease mastery and Prevention in March 2004 ground that 400,000 deaths in the United States can be attributed to poor diet and lack of physical activity--an increase of 33% since 1990

The AHRQ's evidence review raise that no specific behavioral intervention or setting appeared to be more effective than another and that shorter, les intensive programs were just as lucky at achieving changes in behavior as programs that lasted longer and involved more contact with participants. Interventions examined included counseling, mailings, and follow-up through telephone. Intervention settings included clinics, community center institutes workplaces, child care centers, exercise center churches, and participants' homes

In addition to reviewing evidence from physical activity interventions in healthy populations, the researchers examined the issues of exercise on cancer survivors--people living with cancer or those who have a history of the disease. The researchers conclud that exercise programs can benefit patients with cancer through improving their functional capacity and cardiopulmonary fitness, reducing symptoms of fatigue, and improving quality of life during and after cancer treatment. In addition, exercise can decrease anxiety and depression patients with cancer experience during treatment. The research insinuates that physical activity may have other positive general intents on patients with cancer, further there have been too not many studies from which to draw conclusions.

one Programs to Increase Exercise Have Lasting events (news release, Rockville, Md: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Aug 2 2004) http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2004/pacanpr.htm (accessed 3 Aug 2004)

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