Reader's Digest - "Myth: Increased exercise will help chronic fatigue syndrome"

[Webdog]

Good to see mainstream media no longer pushing graded exercise, and even pointing out harms. Nice jab at the CDC's decades of negligence. Now if they would just stop calling it "chronic fatigue syndrome".

50 Fitness Myths That Can Seriously Damage Your Health
https://www.rd.com/health/fitness/fitness-myths-that-can-damage-your-health/

Myth: Increased exercise will help chronic fatigue syndrome

While exercise improves most health problems, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is not one of them. In fact, according to NPR, even light exercise can make this condition much worse. This is a common misconception even among doctors; the CDC only revised its guidelines about exercise and treatment in 2017, after recommending the exact opposite for the last 30 years, when CFS was thought to be more of a psychological issue. Before embarking on a fitness plan, make sure to discuss it with your doctor first.

 

[Barry]

Reader's Digest is something of a British institution, and many people implicitly trust its content. It's good to see short, simple pieces like this permeating out into this sort of media.

 

[Sisyphus]

Only 30 years late, no biggie.

 

[Barry]

Only 30 years late, no biggie.

Everything about ME is decades overdue, and we could slam everything with that cudgel if we so wished, but it would be pointless. The past is past, and we have to move on.

The point I'm making is that when something like this appears in RD, it is a powerful indication that we are living through a period off change - possibly rapid and dramatic change. Such events are not always obvious from within at the time, only afterwards when looked back on as history. But I think the signs are there, and that this is one of them - small but significant. Not a time for complacency, far from it, but a time for belief that things are changing, and striving harder than ever to ensure that.

 

[Sly Saint]

Reader's Digest is something of a British institution

indeed, often to be found in dentists/doctors waiting rooms (although usually several years out of date); wonder if Wessely is a subscriber...