“Live longer, feel the best you’ve ever felt and reduce your health care costs.” In his mission to help people improve both the quality and quantity of their lives, preventive medicine pioneer Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper has studied healthy people for more than 50 years. Over this period, “the father of aerobics” has proven that fitness is a vital sign through research and preventive medicine and wellness services. Today, with a database of more than 150,000 patients and 300,000 maximal performance treadmill stress tests, Cooper Clinic and its research center have proven the value of exercise in the practice of preventive medicine. These men and women are living 10 years longer than the national average. And they tend to “square off the curve,” that is, live a long, healthy life that ends without prolonged illness—86.5 years for men and 90.5 years for women. Cooper’s research shows those in the top category of fitness have 40% lower Medicare costs than those in the bottom level. Your clients and you can do the same with a few simple steps to Get Cooperized™. In addition, while chronic inflammation is on the rise, it is being ignored in the practice of medicine. Explore the multitude of diseases triggered by low-grade, long-term chronic inflammation, as well as the best ways to control it.
You’ll be able to:
• Improve the quality and quantity of people’s lives with proven research from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.
• Educate clients on how to “square off the curve” for a longer, more productive life.
• Identify the causes of inflammation and steps to prevent chronic inflammation and its harmful effects.
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Faculty: Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH, preventive medicine pioneer, is founder and chairman of the Dallas, Texas-based Cooper Aerobics Center, home of six health and wellness companies and renowned nonprofit research center The Cooper Institute. During his 13 years’ service in the US Army and US Air Force, Dr. Cooper served as a flight surgeon and director of the Aerospace Medical Laboratory in San Antonio. He worked with NASA to help create the conditioning program preparing astronauts for space and the in-flight anti-deconditioning program. He also developed the 12-minute and 1.5-mile fitness tests and the Aerobics Point System. In 1968, Dr. Cooper introduced the concept of exercising in pursuit of good health when he launched the worldwide phenomenon Aerobics—his first of 19 books on health and fitness. His latest book, Start Strong, Finish Strong, is a collaboration with his son, Tyler Cooper, MD, MPH. Both father and son are board certified in preventive medicine and hold masters in Public Health from Harvard University.
