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Historical advocacy by Dr. Paul Dudley White emphasized the importance of seven hours of exercise per week for cardiovascular health.
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Historical perspective on the advocacy of exercise for cardiovascular health.
Paul Dudley White, the Boston cardiologist famous for consulting on President Eisenhower when Eisenhower suffered a myocardial infarction in 1955, believed that "a normal person should exercise seven hours a week.If you could not exercise an hour everyday, make up the difference on the weekend." 1 So familiar was White's advocacy of exercise that his obituary in the New England Journal of Medicine started with the statement, "Practically everyone knows that Dr Paul Dudley White rode a bicycle and preached exercise."
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A 2003 study conducted an editorial in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. Exercise and Physical Activity was evaluated. Historical advocacy by Dr. Paul Dudley White emphasized the importance of seven hours of exercise per week for cardiovascular health.
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