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A Quarter of Americans Do No Exercise at All

by | Sep 3, 2014 | Miscellaneous

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Screen Shot 2014-07-28 at 7.29.56 PMThe CDC released a new report that looks “at how states across the country support physical activity, revealing one in four people across the U.S. admit doing no voluntary exercise at all,” Time reports.

“The research is intended to show how some states are much more active than others. But to really drill in the point, the CDC included a table that tracks the percentage of adults by state who participate in zero physical activity in their free time. A total of 25.4 percent across the U.S. admitted making no time at all for leisure-time physical activity, according to the report. Just over half of those surveyed said they met the CDC’s 150-minute weekly guideline for aerobic activity.”

The 10 states with the highest percentage of inactivity were as follows:

Mississippi: 36%
Tennessee: 35.1%
West Virginia: 35.1%
Louisiana: 33.8%
Alabama: 32.6%
Oklahoma: 31.2%
Arkansas: 30.9%
Kentucky: 29.3%
Indiana: 29.2%
Missouri: 28.4%

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