Physical Activity Is Preventive Medicine — But Access Still Matters
Every May, during National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, there is renewed public conversation about exercise, health, and longevity. That conversation matters, because the United States continues to face rising rates of obesity, metabolic disease, chronic pain, cardiovascular disease, depression, and loss of functional independence. Yet despite overwhelming evidence supporting physical activity as one of the most effective forms of preventive healthcare ever studied, structured exercise remains financially and logistically inaccessible for many Americans.
