We know that obesity by itself is a major coronary risk factor, "said Dr." Kenneth Cooper, the fitness expert who launched the aerobics movement.

我们知道肥胖本身是引起冠状动脉疾病的危险因素。

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In 1968, when Kenneth Cooper, an American doctor, introduced the concept of aerobics, jogging was considered an aberration and weight-lifting better left to the beaches of southern California.

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Yet by all accounts, dosage is no less relevant to exercise than to any other medical treatment, and for years the endurance-athletics movement has prompted words of caution from none other than Kenneth Cooper, the Dallas physician widely credited with launching the aerobics movement nearly half a century ago.

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But it has recruited Kenneth Cooper, a 71-year-old Dallas physician and long-forgotten father of the aerobics movement as pitchman.

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