Article posted: 1/6/2013 6:54 PM

Your medical chart could include exercise minutes

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Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health insurance plans, pushed to get its southern California doctors to ask patients about exercise. Now almost 9 million patients are asked at every visit, including those belonging to other medical systems.

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The next time you visit the doctror for a checkup, you may be asked how many minutes you are active or getting exercise. It's a growing movement, but there's still a way to go. One recent national survey found that a only third of Americans said their doctors asked about or prescribed physical activity on their last visit.