Even for something as fundamental as exercise, the experts are still fine-tuning their recommendations. And it’s more than just fine-tuning. They are saying that we should do more and more.
They now go so far as to explicitly say that “more is better.”
Who is this “they” that’s telling us what to do? The newest exercise recommendations come to us from The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association, which have updated their physical activity guidelines.
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