Are you getting enough exercise?
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention say most adults are not.
Fewer than a quarter of American adults get enough exercise each week.
That’s according to the CDC’s National Center for Health statistics.
The Department of Health and Human Services recommends people between the ages of 18 and 64 get at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity activity every week.
They also recommend strength training at least twice a week.
But according to new data, just 23 percent of adults are meeting that goal.
But even that number actually exceeds the department’s “Healthy People 2020” initiative.
Its goal is to get just over 20 percent of adults meeting the exercise guidelines by 2020.
As for those who are meeting or exceeding that exercise goal, the study shows a lot of it has to do where they live.
States with cold weather generally had a larger percentage of active adults than their warmer-weather counterparts.
In fact, states in the southeast like Florida, Georgia, and Alabama failed to meet the Healthy People 2020 goal.
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