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Exercise: The Prescription to Better Health

If you read my blog regularly, you know exercise is one of the key building blocks to optimizing your health. You're probably also familiar with my philosphy that exercise should be viewed as a drug that needs to be prescribed precisely. That's what attracted me to this interesting story about a medical center that integrates exercise, specifically hiking, into their prescription to treat obesity. This fairly new program -- a partnership between doctors and hikers in New Hampshire --...