Staying active even with chronic health conditions

While looking for articles for my weekly blog post, I came across this article on CNN.com. It is about health clubs across the country that are starting to design workout plans specifically for people with cancer, osteoporosis, and other chronic health conditions. This is important because I feel as though we need to do a better job of promoting exercise in people with chronic health conditions. We know that being overweight and obese plays a role in diabetes and heart disease, and that exercise can help strengthen the bones of people with osteoporosis, as well as provide extra energy to people with cancer going through treatment. Hopefully, as more and more health clubs start developing these types of programs for people with chronic disease, we as pharmacists will become aware of them and promote them to our patients. It will go a long way towards improving our patients' quality of life, which is what we should be concerned with as health care providers.