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Exercise 5 days a week for optimum health
BY CZERNE M. REID
A simple piece of health advice - to exercise 30 minutes a day, five days a week - is still a good idea a dozen years after a team of experts first gave it. So says a report recently released by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. It has been 12 years since University of South Carolina professor Russell Pate led a team of experts who published the recommendations in the "Journal of the American Medical Association." Extensive research since then has shown the original ideas to be sound. "The 30-minute guideline is holding up - it has stood the test of time," said Pate, who is on the team - led by William Haskell of Stanford University - that put together the new report in the journal "Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise."

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