Background: Recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) advise all adults to accumulate at …

Objective Regular physical activity can reduce the incidence and prevalence of many
chronic diseases. A vast majority of Americans cite their physician as their primary source of …

Background: Although physical activity is important for the prevention and management of a
variety of common chronic diseases, the prevalence and patient and visit characteristics …

Background Primary care physicians are ideally positioned to affect a large population at
risk for epidemics of sedentary lifestyle; however, it is unclear what type of counseling they …

Introduction: The Activity Counseling Trial (ACT) was designed to compare the effectiveness
of physician advice alone with physician advice plus behavioral counseling, provided by …

BACKGROUND: Exercise counselling is not frequently conducted by family physicians in
several countries. Little is known about the exercise counselling practices of family …

The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM or the College) is dedicated to
providing position statements on issues for which one or more entities has previously …

Background. Few primary care physicians routinely counsel for exercise, despite the
benefits of physical activity and the high prevalence of inactivity. The objective of this study is …

Objective: To assess how often physicians counsel patients about exercise and to identify
which primary care internists infrequently counsel about it. Design: Cross-sectional survey of …

ContextThe increase in sedentary lifestyle may contribute to the rise in obesity nationally.
Although guidelines suggest that physicians counsel all patients about exercise, physicians …