Changing Our Tune on Exercise

By Dr. Mercola

You’ve heard it all before... exercise can help you lose weight, help prevent diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and help you live to a healthy old age -- all spectacular benefits that are well worth a bit of sweat and exertion.

So why, then, do the majority of U.S. adults get no vigorous exercise, and only 28 percent do so three times or more a week?

Clearly, something in the message is not getting through... or it is not motivating enough to make most people think of exercise as a priority in their day – like working, eating and sleeping. New research has revealed that part of the problem may, in fact, be in the way exercise is advertised, which is missing out on a key motivating factor. >