Some Exercise Interventions More Cost-Effective than Others

The less you pay to fail, the better.

"Exercise programs that use pedometers or the mass media to turn patients on to physical activity may be the most cost-effective strategies in terms of health outcomes, researchers found...

Physician referrals to exercise physiologists appear to be the least cost-effective, Linda J. Cobiac, MD, of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues reported online in PLoS Medicine."

That's for sure.

And how well did any of these interventions work?

"The researchers acknowledged limitations including the fact that the studies they looked at had inconsistent physical activity outcome measures, and some lasted less than a year."

This is researcherspeak for "they didn't."