Who says so? None other than the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Based on the guiding principle that exercise and physical activity are important to health and the prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases, the AMA and ACSM collaborated to create a sustainable national initiative: Exercise is Medicine™.

As part of its overall vision, Exercise is Medicine™ seeks to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of disease prevention and treatment in the United States, encourage physicians and other health care providers to counsel patients as to their physical activity needs and to create broad awareness that exercise is indeed medicine.