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1. You can add life to your years and years to your life!

"Today is the day after my eighty-eighth birthday.  I am celebrating, among other things, the fact that I am fit and healthy.  How did this happen?  Well, I think there are two reasons.  First, my body has become a kind of showcase for the latest medical devices.  Second, for the past twenty-five years I have belonged to a cardiac rehabilitation program."

by David Moses.  For more, here is the link to "Our Stories"

Research* shows that participation in a cardiac rehabilitation program which provides education, counseling, behavioral intervention along with supervised exercise results in a 25% reduction in mortality!

A program like ours can

bulletincrease your energy levels and reduce disease symptoms,

bulletimprove your muscular strength, flexibility, and endurance,

bulletimprove your ability to cope with stress and to reduce depression and anxiety,

bulletincrease your self-confidence and reduce your risk of future cardiac events, and

bulletprolong your life!

* Wenger NK, Froelicher ES, Smith LK, et al. Cardiac Rehabilitation as Secondary Prevention.  Clinical Practice Guideline.  Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians, No. 17. Rockville, MD:  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.  AHCPR Pub. No. 96-0673, October 1995, pg 16.

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