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2 nd World Congress Exercise is Medicine Karim Khan, MD, PhD Centre for Hip Health and Mobility Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia and Mobility
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Presentation by Karim Khan, MD of University of British Columbia. Presented at the EveryBody Walk! Week Walking Summit at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health. For more information, visit http://centerfortotalhealth.org/2011/today-walking-summit-live-blogged-from-center-for-total-health/
Transcript of Walking and Health
2nd World Congress
Exercise is Medicine
Karim Khan, MD, PhD
Centre for Hip Health and MobilityProfessor, Department of Family Practice,
University of British Columbia
and Mobility
Which kills more people in the US?
Low fitness Smoker
Diabetes Obesity
Which kills more Americans?
Low fitness
Smoker
Diabetes Obesity
Low fitness kills more people than smokadiabesity
No Physical Activity For 1 Day… No Problem!
Health costs equivalent to smoking just 3 cigarettes!
Consistent reduction in diseaseswith greater ‘dose’.
Take one ‘pill’ or ‘two’? Bouts OK; not lycra
Last word on dose...
Personal story...accumulating 60
minutes of PA daily• 1. GOAL SETTING and RECORDING• 2009 – missed 11 days• 2010 – missed 5 days• 2011 – missed 4 days• Scheduled it, went public about it,
commute to work, have walking meetings, look for walking social activities, friends have similar approach
@BJSM_BMJ
Thank you!!
Karim Khan, MD, PhD
Centre for Hip Health and MobilityProfessor, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of British
Columbia
and Mobility
